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Vote: | I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness. |
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Vote: | I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women. |
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Vote: | My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts. |
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Vote: | Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it. |
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Vote: | The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed. |
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Vote: | When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. |
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Vote: | Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul. |
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Edna O'Brien (born December 15, 1932) is an Irish novelist and short story writer whose works often revolve around the inner feelings of women, and their problems in relating to men.
Life and career
Born in Twamgraney, County Clare, Edna originally practised as a chemist but published her first book - The Country Girls in 1960. The Country Girls was the first part of a trilogy of novels which also included The Lonely Girl (1962) and Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964).
Her 1971 novel A Pagan Place was about her childhood living in a repressive Irish town. Indeed, her parents were vehemently against all things literature, and Edna was very troubled by that fact. In 1981 she wrote a play - Virginia, which was about Virginia Woolf and was staged at the Public Theater in New York in the spring of 1985. Another notable work was a biography of James Joyce, released in 1999.
She has received numerous awards for her works included a Kingsley Amis Award in 1962 and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 1990 for Lantern Slides.
She was married to the Czech writer Ernest Gebler (d.1998).
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