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Winifred Holtby (June 23, 1898 - September 29, 1935) was an English novelist known for her works that focused on social issues, particularly the struggles of women and the working class.

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Famous Winifred Holtby Quotes

“We each live in a private, distorted, individual world - stars turning in space, warmed for a moment by each other's light, then lost in infinite distance.”

World Moments Light Individual Lost Stars Space Infinite Distance

Book:Mandoa, Mandoa!: A Comedy of Irrelevance

Source: Mandoa, Mandoa!: A Comedy of Irrelevance

“The world, with all its beauty and adventure, its richness and variety, is darkened by cruelty. Death, if it ends the loveliness, the adventure, ends also that. Death balances the picture.”

Ifs World Ends Adventure Balance Cruelty Variety Richness Loveliness

Book:South Riding

Source: South Riding

“You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day - should exist in the world, not much to whom it comes. For all of us it is so transitory a thing, how could one not draw joy from its arrival?”

Ifs Thinking World Should Matter Happiness Joy Draws Painful Golden What Matters Arrivals Transitory Golden Days

Author:Winifred Holtby

“Sorrow and frustration have their power. The world is moved by people with great discontents. Happiness is a drug. It can make men blind and deaf and insensible to reality. There are times when only sorrow can give to sorrow.”

People Men World Giving Reality Happiness Sorrow Drug Blind Moved Frustration Deaf Discontent Insensible

Book:Pavements at Anderby: tales of

Source: Pavements at Anderby: tales of

“When a person that one loves is in the world and alive and well, and pleased to be in the world, then to miss them is only a new flavor, a salt sharpness in experience. It is when the beloved is unhappy or maimed or troubled that one misses with pain.”

World Wells Persons Pain Love Is Alive Missing Unhappy Beloved Salt Flavor One Love Sharpness

Book:Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935

Source: Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935

About the Author

Born: June 23, 1898
Died: September 29, 1935
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 55

Books & Sources

Letters to a FriendRelated source material

Pavements at Anderby: tales ofRelated source material

South RidingRelated source material

Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935Related source material

Mandoa, Mandoa!: A Comedy of IrrelevanceRelated source material

Mandoa, Mandoa!: A Comedy of IrrevelevanceRelated source material

Virginia Woolf: A Critical MemoirRelated source material

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