Quotes by Margaret Forster
“It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now.”— Margaret Forster
“A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.”— Margaret Forster
“Women have been brought up to be passive, accepting, not to speak out, to be obedient.”— Margaret Forster
“The family is a subject of endless fascination, and a source of never-ending stories.”— Margaret Forster
“The point of a diary is not to be a record of what you did but of who you were.”— Margaret Forster
“Most of my life I have been a poor goer to things, a poor mixer, a poor joiner in.”— Margaret Forster
“How could you be so naive as to tell a writer everything you have been told in confidence, and then expect him to keep a secret?”— Margaret Forster