Lucy Ellmann Quotes

• Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood.

  Lucy Ellmann

  Peace, War, Men

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• I was sorting through my mother's things. All the letters from friends had to go. I don't know why she kept them, and now they meant nothing to anybody alive. Each generation flushes the toilet for the last.

  Lucy Ellmann

  Mother, Generations, Alive

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• The secret idea she was forming of an afterlife gave her the foothold she needed to endure the agonies to come, a newfound courage and optimism which found instant expression through SHOPPING.

  Lucy Ellmann

  Expression, Agony, Shopping

  Lucy Ellmann (2013). “Dot in the Universe”, p.164, A&C Black

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• Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.

  Lucy Ellmann

  Girl, Baby, Women

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