Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.
Margaret DrabbleSometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.
Margaret DrabblePerhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Margaret DrabbleI confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I'll be all right; I've got a few veg.
Margaret Drabble