Dale Lethbridge > Dale's Quotes

“I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.”
― Margaret Drabble

“Lucky in work, unlucky in love.”
― Margaret Drabble, The Millstone

“When nothing is sure, everything is possible.”
― Margaret Drabble

“Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”
― Margaret Drabble

“I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.”
― Margaret Drabble

“Men won't easily give up a system in which half the world's population works for next to nothing...[and recognizes that]precisely because that half works for so little, it may have no energy left to fight for anything else.”
― Marilyn Waring