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Far from making me hard, writing has made me softer, more understanding, more observant, and perhaps more passive in the sense that other people and their opinion of me seems to matter less.

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Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

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One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions — sorrow and anger — adequately.

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I became an adult too soon and paradoxically never grew up.

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I was brought up among the sort of self-important woman who had a husband as one has an alibi.

Anita Brookner

Anita Brookner

Anita Brookner

Born: July 16, 1928

Died: March 10, 2016 (aged 87)

Bio: Anita Brookner is a British award-winning novelist and art historian. She was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1967 to 1968 and was the first woman to hold this visiting professorship.

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