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Edna O'Brien Quotes

«Writing is like carrying a fetus.»
Author: Edna O'Brien (Writer) | About: Writing | Keywords: carrying, fetus, fetuses
«I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.»
«When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.»
«Inebriations of love, shadows of love, fantasies of love, but never yet the one true love»
Author: Edna O'Brien (Writer) | Keywords: fantasies, Shadows of
«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.»
«I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt»
«The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.»
Author: Edna O'Brien (Writer) | Keywords: armed
«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?''»
«Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.»
«Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.»
Author: Edna O'Brien (Writer) | Keywords: hotels