Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die.
Margaret DrabbleI'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.
Margaret DrabbleLord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all. We disregard them, we say they forget, because they have not the words to make us remember. ... By the time they learn to speak they have forgotten the details of their complaints, and so we never know. They forget so quickly, we say, because we cannot contemplate the fact that they never forget.
Margaret DrabbleI've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.
Margaret Drabble