"Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place."

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Source : "The Limits of Mother Love". The New York Times Book Review, www.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

Margaret Drabble

#Family Quotes #Choices Quotes #Sanctuary Quotes

“All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.”
“It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.”

Source : "Robert Fisk, Injured in Line of Duty" by Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. December 10, 2001.
“All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity. They can hurt no one.”
“To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.”
“Knowing is knowing that knowing is not knowing.”
“A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces.”
“If you dig a hole and it's in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn't going to help.”

Source : Seymour Chwast (1985). “The left-handed designer”, Harry N Abrams Inc
“The only meaningful thing we can offer one another is love. Not advice, not questions about our choices, not suggestions for the future, just love.”

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