Marina Warner Quotes

United Kingdom, Novelist
November 9, 1946

Dame Marina Sarah Warner, DBE, FRSL, FBA (born 1946) is a British novelist, short story writer, historian and mythographer. She is known for her many non-fiction books relating to feminism and myth. She has written for many publications, including The London Review of Books, the New Statesman, Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph and Vogue. She has been a visiting professor, given lectures and taught on the faculties of many universities.

Also known as Short Story Writer

When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

Marina Warner
- Model
- Famous
Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.

Marina Warner
- Up
- Fear
- Desire

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Marina Warner
- Pain
The sombre-suited masculine world of the Protestant religion is altogether too much like a gentlemen's club to which the ladies are only admitted on special days.

Marina Warner
- World
One of the achievements of our generation of feminists was to emancipate women from the division between being interested in clothes and appearance, and being serious and ambitious. I am of the first generation that could go to Biba, wear miniskirts and get a degree.

Marina Warner
- Women
- Serious
I avoid looking in the mirror.

Marina Warner
- Mirror
If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.

Marina Warner
- People
- Culture
Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made simple, that complexity reigns and must be accepted.

Marina Warner

I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.

Marina Warner
- Up
- School
- Catholic
I shop online because I don't like to try things on in front of an alien mirror.

Marina Warner
- Mirror
- Alien