Monday, July 7, 2008

Quotes by Beryl Bainbridge (21 November 1932)

Beryl Bainbridge Quotes


- Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.

- Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

- I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.

- It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

- When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly.

- Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood

- It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

- It's all changed now, which is why it mattered to those young men from Liverpool that they should be there to support their team.

- When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly.

- I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.

- Oh, I made her, ... When I couldn't get reception on the television, I had to have something to hold up the aerial.

- I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

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