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Margaret Forster

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Margaret Forster was an English author renowned for her biographical works. Her writing is celebrated for its delicate touch and profound psychological insights into characters. Her career spanned various literary genres, including novels, biographies, and children's literature.

Hidden Lives: A Family Memoir

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“All of us, all three representatives of different generations, always have put family first but in my case, in the case of my generation, it has not been at ruinous cost. I'm not, and haven't been, crippled by the family. I don't pay an enormous emotional price for the having of one. I have been able to be myself within its confines.”

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“Everything, for a woman, is better now, even if it still not as good as it could be. To forget or deny that is an insult to the women who have gone before, women like my grandmother and mother.”

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“Locked up inside her was an uncomfortable amount of unhappiness, perhaps even horror, if of a sadly conventional kind, and the only way she could deal with it was by pretending it never existed - so much pretending women like my grandmother had to do. The urge in her to be respectable and above reproach was so strong, and the rules of that respectability so rigid, that it overrode all other desires.”

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“I don't like taking from anyone. I'd rather be a giver, though not for any worthy reason. It's about control, obviously. If I give, I control; if I take, I am controlled. If someone offers me something for free I am at once suspicious.”

Control Giving And Taking

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“I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.”

Writing Easy Walks Morning Lovely Evening Afternoon Lovely Life

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“I absolutely adored Wuthering Heights and fell in love with Heathcliff as most girls do.”

Girl Height Heathcliff

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“God's always got a custard pie up his sleeve.”

Pie Sleeves Custard

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“People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful!”

People Wonderful Nasty Escapism

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About the Author

Born: May 25, 1938
Died: February 8, 2016
Known for: Author
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