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Helen Garner Quotes
At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society. - Helen Garner Quotes
But I cant bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women whove really met violence, whove been raped or bashed. - Helen Garner Quotes
But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground. - Helen Garner Quotes
But there are some wounds that can never be healed. - Helen Garner Quotes
I like poking my nose into other peoples lives. - Helen Garner Quotes
I like to stand behind them and give support of the kind I didnt get when I was a young mother because I was estranged from my parents for a very long time.. So I dont know which way to go from here and it does seem a particularly female problem. - Helen Garner Quotes
I think one thing Ive learned not to do from my experience with The First Stone was to pester somebody, to keep insisting that they speak to you. - Helen Garner Quotes
I think some people wished Id kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that Im doing it completely intellectually. - Helen Garner Quotes
I think writers are very anxious. - Helen Garner Quotes
Im very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence. - Helen Garner Quotes
Ideas came swarming through her, and like many people who labour in the obsession of solitude, she lacked the detachment to challenge them. - Helen Garner Quotes
Its a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody elses life. - Helen Garner Quotes
Its disturbing at my age to look at a young womans destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of ones own destructiveness in youth. - Helen Garner Quotes
Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions. - Helen Garner Quotes
People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it cant deliver. - Helen Garner Quotes
Thats one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque. - Helen Garner Quotes
The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching. - Helen Garner Quotes
The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall. - Helen Garner Quotes
We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as we got older and we saw how much womens behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as. - Helen Garner Quotes
Well, Im at some kind of crossroads in my life and I dont know which way to take. Its not about money, I mean, because Im established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction. - Helen Garner Quotes
Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about whats happened - almost to calm themselves. - Helen Garner Quotes
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