Margaret Laurence Quotes

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Women, as well as men, in all ages and in all places, have danced on the earth, danced the life dance, danced joy, danced grief, danced despair, and danced hope. Literally and metaphorically, by their very lives.

Margaret Laurence
Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young.

Margaret Laurence
Will we ever reach a point when it is no longer necessary to say Them and Us? I believe we must reach that point, or perish.

Margaret Laurence
Some people will tell you that the old live in the past... such people as Marvin, who is somehow comforted by the picture of old ladies feeding like docile rabbits on the lettuce leaves of other times, other manners.

Margaret Laurence
What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside.

Margaret Laurence
Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.

Margaret Laurence
I can't change what's happened to me in my life, or make what's not occurred take place. But I can't say I like it, or accept it, or believe it's for the best. I don't and never shall, not even if I'm damned for it.

Margaret Laurence
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

Margaret Laurence
The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living.

Margaret Laurence
Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.

Margaret Laurence
Even if heaven were real, and measured as Revelation says, so many cubits this wayand that, how gimcrack a place it would be, crammed with its pavements of gold, its gates of pearl and topaz, like a gigantic chunkof costume jewelry.

Margaret Laurence
Why doesn't Prin go and get her own goddamn blistering bloody shitty jelly doughnuts?

Margaret Laurence
If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.

Margaret Laurence