Edna O'Brien Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Edna O'Brien:

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
~Edna O'Brien


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/edna-obrien-quotes/#0c5a5cc3

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?'
~Edna O'Brien


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/edna-obrien-quotes/#f96fda38

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
~Edna O'Brien


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/edna-obrien-quotes/#ff82c5ce

My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts.
~Edna O'Brien


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/edna-obrien-quotes/#2afdd750

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.
~Edna O'Brien


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/edna-obrien-quotes/#28d5b08d

Writing is like carrying a fetus.
~Edna O'Brien


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/edna-obrien-quotes/#a5672928

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
~Edna O'Brien


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/edna-obrien-quotes/#a47f8956

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
~Edna O'Brien


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/edna-obrien-quotes/#e37143f6

I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.
~Edna O'Brien


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/edna-obrien-quotes/#43d7376e

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
~Edna O'Brien


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/edna-obrien-quotes/#44377794

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