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I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.

Nuala O'Faolain

I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.

There was nothing between the man and me - - nothing, not even liking. But because of the memory of some wholeness, or the hope of some regeneration, I would have dropped whatever I'd planned, just to...

Nuala O'Faolain

There was nothing between the man and me - - nothing, not even liking. But because of the memory of some wholeness, or the hope of some regeneration, I would have dropped whatever I'd planned, just to...

About Author
Nuala O'Faolain (; 1 March 1940 – 9 May 2008) was an Irish journalist, TV producer, book reviewer, teacher and writer. She became well known after the publication of her memoirs Are You Somebody? and Almost There. She wrote a biography of Irish criminal Chicago May and two novels.

The world is wonderful, she said. All its little things. It is wonderful.

Nuala O'Faolain

The world is wonderful, she said. All its little things. It is wonderful.

The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.

Nuala O'Faolain

The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.

States have no goodness. They suppress these villains here and promote those villains there, with no aim but self-aggrandizement.

Nuala O'Faolain

States have no goodness. They suppress these villains here and promote those villains there, with no aim but self-aggrandizement.

Permanence, I once copied down from a magazine, is what we all want when we can love and can be loved; change is what we want when we cannot.

Nuala O'Faolain

Permanence, I once copied down from a magazine, is what we all want when we can love and can be loved; change is what we want when we cannot.

My life burned inside me. Even such as it was, it was the only record of me, and it was my only creation, and something in me would not accept that it was insignificant.

Nuala O'Faolain

My life burned inside me. Even such as it was, it was the only record of me, and it was my only creation, and something in me would not accept that it was insignificant.

Lovers are allowed to be as cruel as anything to the one who dissappoints them.

Nuala O'Faolain

Lovers are allowed to be as cruel as anything to the one who dissappoints them.

In any case, I would prefer to read something I don't enjoy than do almost anything else. I like the act of reading itself. Following the line of something - not just the story but the rhythm, the ton...

Nuala O'Faolain

In any case, I would prefer to read something I don't enjoy than do almost anything else. I like the act of reading itself. Following the line of something - not just the story but the rhythm, the ton...

If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for.

Nuala O'Faolain

If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for.

I tried not to think about it. But every so often it would burst out of me - why did he do something so unkind? What had I done to deserve it? I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking...

Nuala O'Faolain

I tried not to think about it. But every so often it would burst out of me - why did he do something so unkind? What had I done to deserve it? I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking...

When I stay with the couple who are my closest friends, I hear them laughing and talking in bed, and sometimes in the middle of the night one of them goes down and makes tea, and when the clock goes o...

Nuala O'Faolain

When I stay with the couple who are my closest friends, I hear them laughing and talking in bed, and sometimes in the middle of the night one of them goes down and makes tea, and when the clock goes o...

What makes a woman into a doormat? What makes her see some quite ordinary other person as a looming Goliath? And are not these relationships such an outrage to reality that they cannot last a lifetime...

Nuala O'Faolain

What makes a woman into a doormat? What makes her see some quite ordinary other person as a looming Goliath? And are not these relationships such an outrage to reality that they cannot last a lifetime...

They're fathers second, Jimmy said. They're men first.

Nuala O'Faolain

They're fathers second, Jimmy said. They're men first.

But you know, there's one simple thing I see absolutely clearly, now that I am so very old.I looked at her. The Albert Einstein hairstyle, and the bright black eyes and the sharp nose. That pallor on...

Nuala O'Faolain

But you know, there's one simple thing I see absolutely clearly, now that I am so very old.I looked at her. The Albert Einstein hairstyle, and the bright black eyes and the sharp nose. That pallor on...

But this upland pass was the right place for remembering how, when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness underneath every soft appearance.

Nuala O'Faolain

But this upland pass was the right place for remembering how, when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness underneath every soft appearance.

A bugler sounded the Last Post. Heartbreak made audible.

Nuala O'Faolain

A bugler sounded the Last Post. Heartbreak made audible.

Though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.

Nuala O'Faolain

Though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.

When I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness under every soft appearance.

Nuala O'Faolain

When I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness under every soft appearance.

Time is the third party to every relationship.

Nuala O'Faolain

Time is the third party to every relationship.