Quotes from Edna O'Brien

It's not the vote women need, we should be armed.

Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

My hand does the work and I dont have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. Its like a dam in the brain that bursts.

it is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night.

Death in its way comes just as much of a surprise as birth.

fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.