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    Edna O'Brien

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    I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt. ↗


    — Edna O'Brien

    #guilt #i #iceberg #irish #irish catholic

    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

    #bursts #dam #does #fact #flow

    Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it. ↗


    — Edna O'Brien

    #comes #i #i am #i can #recollection

    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

    #also #am #aware #awareness #besides

    Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire. ↗


    — Edna O'Brien

    #either #emotional #fathers #mothers #reserved

    I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women. ↗


    — Edna O'Brien

    #built-in #competition #friends #i #men

    In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?' ↗


    — Edna O'Brien

    #between #every #forth #fugue #last

    The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed. ↗


    — Edna O'Brien

    #means #nothing #should #vote #women

    Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul. ↗


    — Edna O'Brien

    #live #mind #really #soul #writers

    Writing is like carrying a fetus. ↗


    — Edna O'Brien

    #fetus #like #writing






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    She has received numerous awards for her works including a Kingsley Amis Award in 1962 (for The Country Girls) the Yorkshire Post Book Award in 1970 (for A Pagan Place) and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 1990 for Lantern Slides. The book was banned burned and denounced from the pulpit and O'Brien left Ireland behind. D.

    Edna O'Brien (born 15 December 1930) is an Irish novelist playwright poet and short story writer whose works often revolve around the inner feelings of women and their problems in relating to men and to society as a whole. Her first novel The Country Girls is often credited with breaking silence on sexual matters and social issues during a repressive period in Ireland following World War II. She now lives in London.

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