Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

Margaret Drabble
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  3. The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person. - Chuck Palahniuk

  4. Where there is love there is life. - Mahatma Gandhi

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More Quotes By Margaret Drabble
  1. When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

  2. Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

  3. Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die swiftly and suddenly, in full possession of our faculties and our fate, but more and more of us will be...

  4. What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell me what the meaning of it is. I find it just so staggering--that you're supposed to explain the meaning of...

  5. I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.

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