Margaret Drabble Quotes

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

Margaret Drabble

Margaret Drabble

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I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.

Olivia Wilde
- People
- Love
- Age
I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.

Vince Cable
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

Samuel Butler
- Power
- Healing
- Medical
Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.

Macaulay Culkin
- People
- Way
- Me
Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.

Barbra Streisand
- You
- Interesting
- Know
I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.

Hannah Gadsby
- Real
- Want
- Celebrity