Nina Bawden Quotes - Page 2

• I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously.

  Nina Bawden

  Mother, School, Oxford

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• Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships.

  Nina Bawden

  Girl, School, College

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• I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine.

  Nina Bawden

  Mother, Made Up Stories, Serial Killer

  Interview With Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2006.

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