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All Quotes by author - Edna O'Brien

" 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. "

" I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women. "

" I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Writing is like carrying a fetus. "

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