Victoria Purman > Quotes

“You've got to discover you, what you do, and trust it." Barbra Streisand”
― Victoria Purman, Nobody But Him

“Too many women kept too many secrets. For too long, women had buried their ambitions and their intelligence, succumbed to the law of the land made by men, and put up with behaviour and situations no man had a right to impose on them. They had made excuses and apologised for the bad behaviour of some men, had covered up for the failings of other men, and had silently laboured and toiled without complaining. Because it was their lot. Because it was what women did.”
― Victoria Purman, The Radio Hour

“What about the children, Miss Berry? What it they develop an addiction and forget how to run and play? What will happen if people stop conversing with each other because they re too busy watching a box? Or if they stop going to lectures or musical performances or the theater or concerts. And, god forbid, reading.
What if people stop reading?”
― Victoria Purman, The Radio Hour: A Novel

“Books are as important to me as breathing.”
― Victoria Purman, The Radio Hour: A Novel

“If a name was long, Australians liked to make it shorter. If it was short, they did the opposite.”
― Victoria Purman, The Last Of The Bonegilla Girls

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― Victoria Purman, The Rebel

“Perhaps it was more that she liked being more than one thing. She loved being your mother, but she also loved being a working woman.”
― Victoria Purman, The Radio Hour: A Novel