If I were happy, married with six children, I wouldn’t be writing. And I doubt if I should want to. Anita Brookner Read Quote
I never learnt Hebrew because my health was fragile, and it was thought that learning Hebrew would be an added burden. I regret it, because I would like to be able to join in fully. Not that I am a believer, but I would like to be. Anita Brookner Read Quote
I was brought up to look after my parents. My family were Polish Jews, and we lived with my grandmother, with uncles and aunts and cousins all around, and I thought everybody lived like that. Anita Brookner Read Quote
Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography. Anita Brookner Read Quote
You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can’t answer slurs, but I’m here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn’t. Anita Brookner Read Quote
A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in. Anita Brookner Read Quote
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. Anita Brookner Read Quote
It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to. Anita Brookner Read Quote
