Lynsey Hanley > Quotes

“Council housing, once the cherished centrepiece of Bevanite socialism, took just twenty years for successive governments to pick apart.”
― Lynsey Hanley, Estates: An Intimate History

“Margaret Thatcher. She is widely quoted as saying in 1986 that ‘a man who finds himself, beyond the age of 26, on a bus can consider himself a failure’.”
― Lynsey Hanley, Estates: An Intimate History

“The estate stayed with me long after I moved elsewhere, partly in the form of a strange kind of vertigo when presented with opportunities and experiences I’d grown up assuming were far beyond my reach. I also felt its presence as early as my first term at university, when I got it into my head that everyone in the student union bar wanted to hear a version of my life story which crossed the “books on prescription” section of the library with Monty Python’s Four Yorkshiremen sketch.”
― Lynsey Hanley, Respectable: The Experience of Class