I was fed up with the situation I found myself in in the 1960s. I didn't like being a barrister's wife and going out to dinner with other professional people and dealing with middle class life. It seemed claustrophobic. Votes: 9
Paper is like Joyce Carol Oates: white. Votes: 9
Maud: Young women are never happy.Betty: Mother, what a thing to say.Maud: Then when they're older they look back and see that comparatively speaking they were ecstatic." Votes: 7
Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit. Votes: 6
Parties are a cruel kind of fun. Votes: 6
You can't win every week. Votes: 5
NELL. Because that's what an employer is going to have doubts about with a lady as I needn't tell you, whether she's got the guts to push through to a closing situation. They think we're too nice. They think we listen to the buyer's doubts. They think we consider his needs and his feelings. Votes: 4
Polly Findlay showed real insight and imagination in her production of my translation of Seneca's Thyestes at the Arcola. I enjoyed her use of the space and the detail of her work with the actors, and I'm looking forward to seeing what she does with Light Shining. Votes: 3
I do enjoy the form of things. I enjoy finding the form that seems best to fit what I'm thinking about. I don't set out to find a bizarre way of writing. Votes: 1
People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that? Votes: 0
You make beauty and it disappears, I love that. Votes: 0
You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now. Votes: 0
[Margaret] Thatcher had just become prime minister; there was talk about whether it was an advance to have a woman prime minister if it was someone with policies like hers: She may be a woman but she isn't a sister, she may be a sister but she isn't a comrade. Votes: 0
What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake. Votes: 0
England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe. Votes: 0
Weâve got ninety-nine per cent the same genes as any other person. Weâve got ninety per cent the same as a chimpanzee. Weâve got thirty per cent the same as a lettuce. Does that cheer you up at all? I love about the lettuce. It makes me feel I belong. Votes: 0
There's nothing personal in it [THE SKRIKER]. I'm not ever inclined with any of the plays to say, This is about that, because plays are about the whole event that they are. . . . I was certainly wanting to write a play about damage - damage to nature and damage to people, both of which there's plenty of about. To that extent, I was writing a play about England now. Votes: 0
How could I go on my travels without that sweet soul waiting at home for my letters? Votes: 0
What I like about a dog it stops people getting after you, they're not going to come round in the night. But they make the place stink because I might want to stay out a few days and when I get back I might want to stay in a few days and a dog can become a tyrant to you. Votes: 0
I'd go without food if I could have a flower. Votes: 0