"When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions."

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Source : Ruth Rendell (2010). “Road Rage: (A Wexford Case)”, p.61, Random House

Ruth Rendell

#Children Quotes #Heart Quotes #Secret Quotes

“[Princess Margaret] was loud, an extrovert, an exhibitionist, loved fashion, loved color, loved music, loved drama, loved the theater, wanted to be a ballerina or actress, was always the little one putting on the school plays, and [princess] Elizabeth reluctantly did it and got stage fright.”
“If something excites you, go for it.”
“The more innocent you are, the more blissful you will be.”
“I wake the dead. I bring Jackie Robinson and the Roosevelts to life. Who do you think Im trying to wake up?”
“A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.”
“I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy.”
“Life is too precious to spend it with important people.”
“I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.”

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