"The Golden Notebook" Quotes

The novel is a dialogue, not a monologue. You can only open it in partnership, in collaboration.

What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death.

One of the most difficult things to learn is that we do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience.

She liked a cigarette firmly held between her fingers.

Men... have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands.

One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not.

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

A woman's life is not just a parcel of pot-boilers, and a woman is not just a sex machine.

There is nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.

The quietness of my dog her friends took as stupidity, but there are good and bad kinds of stupidity, and hers was a good kind.