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List of Helen Garner Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 24 inspiring quotes by Helen Garner.

About Helen Garner

  • Born: November 7, 1942
  • Occupation: Novelist
    • I think writers are very anxious.
    Thinking Anxious
    At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.
    Development Natural Interest
    I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.
    Violence Disturbed Violence Against Women
    Now, i - for several years while i was researching this book, i felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions.
    Book Years Punishment
    The only thing that i was equipped for with my very mediocre college arts degree was to get a job in teaching.
    Art Jobs Teaching
    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.
    Mean Fiction Way
    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.
    Men Insulting Violence
    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.
    Husband Thinking Looks
    That's one of the things i hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to joe cinque.
    Book Dignity Can Do
    People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.
    People Justice Demand
    To slide into the domed reading room at ten each morning, specially in summer, off the hot street outside, was a sensation as delicious as dropping into the water off the concrete edge of the fitzroy baths.
    Summer Morning Reading
    I like poking my nose into other people's lives.
    People Noses
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