1. “Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.”
2. “People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.”
― The Hearing Trumpet
3. “Do you believe, she went on, that the past dies?
Yes, said Margaret. Yes, if the present cuts its throat.”
― The Seventh Horse And Other Tales
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5. “One has to be careful what one takes when one goes away forever.”
― The Hearing Trumpet
6. “The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.”
7. “I do miss England. Well, I miss the idea of England, I think. But I haven’t been back for years. I probably just miss the past.”
8. “There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have art.”
9. “I do not know of any religion that does not declare women to be feeble-minded, unclean, generally inferior creatures to males, although most Humans assume that we are the cream of all species. Women, alas; but thank God, Homo Sapiens! Most of us, I hope, are now aware that a woman should not have to demand Rights. The Rights were there from the beginning; they must be Taken Back Again, including the Mysteries which were ours and which were violated, stolen or destroyed, leaving us with the thankless hope of pleasing a male animal, probably of one’s own species.”
10. “I had no idea what maternal instinct was until I had my children.”
