Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd DBE FRSL (born 5 June 1939), is an English novelist, biographer and critic. Read full biography of Margaret Drabble →
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
Nothing fails like failure.
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.
And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would... →
Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd DBE FRSL (born 5 June 1939), is an English novelist, biographer and critic.