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Edna O'Brien

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Josephine Edna O'Brien (15 December 193027 July 2024) was an Irish novelist, short-story writer and playwright, who was resident in the United Kingdom from the late-1950s. Her first seven novels were banned in Ireland on publication, but she found an appreciative audience in her adopted country and in the United States.

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  • The vote, I thought, means nothing to women, we should be armed.
    • Girls in their Married Bliss (London: Jonathan Cape, 1964) p. 78
  • Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.
    • Girls in their Married Bliss (London: Jonathan Cape, 1964) p. 119
  • [On the banning of (her then) four novels in Ireland] I believe that mental disturbance by literature is a healthy and invigorating thing. We have plenty of comfortable and easy prose all around us, but it's by abrasion that people's prejudices are aroused.
  • Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
    • Interviewed in Vogue (April 1985)
  • It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates every corner of our existence.
    • New York Times Book Review (14 February 1993)

Quotes about Edna O'Brien

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  • (Tell us about your favorite short story.) “Old Wounds,” by Edna O’Brien, haunts me as though I’ve lived it.
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