Edna O'Brien Quotes

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

Edna O'Brien

• Long
• Catholic
• Irish

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

Edna O'Brien

• Women
• Nothing
• Vote

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

Edna O'Brien

• Emotional
• Mother`s
• Reserved

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

Edna O'Brien

• Servant
• Recollection

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

Edna O'Brien

• Live
• Mind
• Soul

Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.

Edna O'Brien

• God
• Different
• Women

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

Edna O'Brien

• Writing
• Like
• Carrying

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

Edna O'Brien

• Men
• Women
• Friends

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

• Childhood
• Awareness
• Obsessive

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

• Question
• New
• Last

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

• Work
• Think
• Stop

It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates every corner of our existence.

Edna O'Brien

• Universe
• Fate