Linda Grant Quotes

• Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all the clothes you have ever owned in all your life, each baby shoe and winter coat and wedding dress, you would have your autobiography.

  Linda Grant

  Fashion, Baby, Winter

  Linda Grant (2010). “The Thoughtful Dresser: The Art of Adornment, the Pleasures of Shopping, and Why Clothes Matter”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• The clothes you wear are a metamorphosis. They change you from the outside in.

  Linda Grant

  Clothes You Wear, Clothes, Metamorphosis

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• The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.

  Linda Grant

  Daughter, Mother, War

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• Reading wasn't my religion - it was my oxygen.

  Linda Grant

  Reading, Oxygen

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• Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead to ignoble actions and that we were capable of sacrificing honor to a sense of efficacy.

  Linda Grant

  War, Sacrifice, Honor

  Linda Grant (1991). “Blind Trust”, Fawcett Books

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• A new dress. Is this all it takes to make a new beginning, this shred of dyed cloth, shaped into the form of a woman's body?

  Linda Grant

  New Beginnings, Dresses, Body

  Linda Grant (2008). “The Clothes On Their Backs: A Novel”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not the punch you expect that knocks you down.

  Linda Grant

  Expectations, Surprise

  Linda Grant (1991). “Blind Trust”, Fawcett Books

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• I'm a really hectic dreamer, I never wake up not out of a dream and there's loads going on, lots of action, big blockbuster dreams, they're all major enterprises.

  Linda Grant

  Dream, Wake Up, Action

  "Linda Grant: a life in writing". Interview with Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2011.

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• Revenge is so much more satisfying than regret.

  Linda Grant

  Revenge, Regret, Satisfying

  Linda Grant (1995). “A Woman's Place”, Fawcett Books

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• I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'

  Linda Grant

  Coffee, Book, Imagination

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• When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.

  Linda Grant

  Proud, Penguins, Modern

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• I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a defining experience. You went o r you didn't, but the fact of it and the decisions it forced us to make marked us for the rest of our lives, just as the depression and World War II had marked my parents.

  Linda Grant

  Depression, War, Decision

  Linda Grant (1991). “Blind Trust”, Fawcett Books

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• There is probably no finer prose writer alive in Britain now, no-one better at making a sentence, no-one better at descriptive writing, no-one who can get so close to the vividness of other peoples interior selves.

  Linda Grant

  Writing, Self, Alive

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