List of Margaret Laurence Quotes

Well, You're Young. You Know A Lot You Won't Know Later On.

What Goes On Inside Isn't Ever The Same As What Goes On Outside.

Holidays Are Enticing Only For The First Week Or So. After That, It Is No Longer Such A Novelty To Rise Late And Have Little To Do.

As We Grow Older We Should Become Not Less Radical But More So.

Women, As Well As Men, In All Ages And In All Places, Have Danced On The Earth, Danced The Life Dance, Danced Joy, Danced Grief, Danced Despair, And Danced Hope. Literally And Metaphorically, By Their Very Lives.

Animals Are Less Alone With Roaring Than We Are With All These Words.

Pride Was My Wilderness, And The Demon That Led Me There Was Fear.

If I Hadn't Had My Children, I Wouldn't Have Written More And Better, I Would Have Written Less And Worse.

I Used To Think There Would Be A Blinding Flash Of Light Someday, And Then I Would Be Wise And Calm And Would Know How To Cope With Everything And My Kids Would Rise Up And Call Me Blessed. Now I See That Whatever I'm Like, I'm Pretty Well Stuck With It For Life. Hell Of A Revelation That Turned Out To Be.

The Dead Don't Bear A Grudge Nor Seek A Blessing. The Dead Don't Rest Uneasy. Only The Living.

In Some Families, Please Is Described As The Magic Word. In Our House, However, It Was Sorry.

Will We Ever Reach A Point When It Is No Longer Necessary To Say Them And Us? I Believe We Must Reach That Point, Or Perish.