We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as we got older and we saw how much women's behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as.Helen Garner
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People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.
Helen Garner
But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.
Helen Garner
Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction.
Helen Garner
I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.
Helen Garner
But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed.
Helen Garner
Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.
Helen Garner
All Helen Garner Quotations
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Able,
Behaviour,
Being,
Contributed,
Everything,
Full,
Got,
Government,
Great,
Hope,
How,
Labour,
Moment,
Much,
New,
Older,
Ourselves,
Purely,
Saw,
See,
Seemed,
Seething,
Stopped,
Were,
Women,
Wrong
Definitions
Able,
Being,
Contributed,
Everything,
Full,
Got,
Government,
Great,
Hope,
How,
Moment,
Much,
New,
Ourselves,
Purely,
Saw,
See,
Seemed,
Seething,
Stopped,
Were,
Women,
Wrong
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