Edna O'Brien Quotes

I have some women friends but I prefer men.

Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?'

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things. (Sister Imelda)

My hand does the work and I don't have to think;

in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with the palm of your hand... felt it, strands of hair, with your fingers, touched it as if it were cloth, the way a child touches its favorite surfaces.

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

I am obsessive, also I am industrious.

Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.