I think itโs very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.
Anne EnrightWe have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.
Anne EnrightI think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
Anne EnrightSometimes I will spend two or three days not speaking to anyone outside of the immediate family when they come home, and then I find that I've been emailing like fury. Once you give in to that silence, it's quite nice.
Anne Enright