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Edna O'Brien Quotes
Edna O'Brien Quotes
Edna O'Brien
Irish
Novelist
Born:
Dec 15
,
1932
Between
Forth
Friends
Men
Women
I Am
I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
Edna O'Brien
Guilt
Long
Catholic
Irish
Irish Catholic
Iceberg
The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
Edna O'Brien
Vote
Women
Nothing
Armed
Should
Means
I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.
Edna O'Brien
Trust
Women
Competition
Men
Some
Between
Friends
Prefer
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.
Edna O'Brien
Time
You
I Am
Awareness
Alive
Besides
Obsessive
Most
Also
Industrious
Am
Trying
Childhood
Aware
Recapture
Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
Edna O'Brien
Fathers
Secretly
Emotional
Countries
Mothers
Either
Reserved
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.
Edna O'Brien
Work
Think
Would
Fact
Like
Does
Were
Brain
Hand
Stop
In Fact
Bursts
Flow
Dam
Writing is like carrying a fetus.
Edna O'Brien
Writing
Carrying
Like
Fetus