In a meditation on the life of a working mother, Drabble writes, "The busier a
life, the more time there seems to be in it, by some curious paradox."
Drabble writes that "it is rubbish to claim that rape is the organized
conspiracy of all men against all women."
Drabble, writing as the mother of a 16-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl, says
she is considered "depraved" for thinking of her children as "chatty, charming
people."
Writing about discovering obscure women writers during her research for "The
Oxford Companion to Englis Literature,"Drabble asks, is there "anything
representative, necessary, in their odd destinies, any linking thread, or are
they merely casualties, each perishing alone?"
In an adaptation from her biography of Wilson, Drabble writes that "Angus Wilson
revealed to us the world beyond academe, a world peopled not only by scholars .
. . but also by spivs, rent boys, society hostesses, civil servants, nightclub
pianists, pompous barristers and women on the verge of a nervous
breakdown."
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Natalia Quintana Sánchez