Well, I woke up one morning around Christmas, went as far as the shops, and when I got to the corner I felt this violent pain in me left leg. I mentioned it to my daughter and she took me instantly to the hospital. It turned out it was vasculitis. In other words, you can have your leg off.

Beryl Bainbridge

Categorized in : Morning Pain Daughter

The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour

Beryl Bainbridge

fades glorious past

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

Beryl Bainbridge

paper writing talking

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from child... by Beryl Bainbridge

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

Beryl Bainbridge

childhood fatherhood grows

It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.

Beryl Bainbridge

stealing generations lying

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essential... by Beryl Bainbridge

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

Beryl Bainbridge

essentials sky men

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.

Beryl Bainbridge

pairs shoes children

I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

Beryl Bainbridge

writing talking book

Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out... by Beryl Bainbridge

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

Beryl Bainbridge

emotion views world

Moonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow. by Beryl Bainbridge

Moonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow.

Beryl Bainbridge

moon snow fall

When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire bu... by Beryl Bainbridge

When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes.

Beryl Bainbridge

ashes passion fire

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

Beryl Bainbridge

different men thinking

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.

Beryl Bainbridge

important men thinking

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.

Beryl Bainbridge

home believe children

What we remember is probably fiction anyway. by Beryl Bainbridge

What we remember is probably fiction anyway.

Beryl Bainbridge

remember life fiction

The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.

Beryl Bainbridge

given girl years

The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large refuse bin.

Beryl Bainbridge

accessories prayer book

I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have... by Beryl Bainbridge

I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.

Beryl Bainbridge

inferiors felt men

The sun burnt on, drugging everything with warmth. by Beryl Bainbridge

The sun burnt on, drugging everything with warmth.

Beryl Bainbridge

warmth sun

nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age. by Beryl Bainbridge

nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age.

Beryl Bainbridge

so-sad injustice age

no one had experiences any more, only traumas. by Beryl Bainbridge

no one had experiences any more, only traumas.

Beryl Bainbridge

exaggeration trauma