Beryl Bainbridge Quotes

Emotions weren’t like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

What we remember is probably fiction anyway.

Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it’s any different.

Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn’t bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age.

There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course – the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled

The sun burnt on, drugging everything with warmth.