Margaret Drabble Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Margaret Drabble:

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
~Margaret Drabble


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Nothing fails like failure.
~Margaret Drabble


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/margaret-drabble-quotes/#9d90a842

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
~Margaret Drabble


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/margaret-drabble-quotes/#c625f0fc

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.
~Margaret Drabble


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/margaret-drabble-quotes/#dbb95349

And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn't seem to be any moral place for flesh.
~Margaret Drabble


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/margaret-drabble-quotes/#423bcaf1

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
~Margaret Drabble


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/margaret-drabble-quotes/#13665798

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
~Margaret Drabble


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/margaret-drabble-quotes/#0a51a811

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