top of page
Quote_1.png
Helen Garner

"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."

Standard 
 Customized
"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."

More 

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"There shall be no end to the government of God."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves."

Author Name

Personal Development

More 

Quote_1.png
Helen Garner
"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."

Thought

Quote_1.png
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."

Competition

Quote_1.png
Helen Garner
"The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching."

College

Quote_1.png
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."

People

Quote_1.png
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."

Woman

Quote_1.png
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."

Life

Quote_1.png
Helen Garner
"That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque."

Hope

Quote_1.png
Helen Garner
"At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society."

Society

Quote_1.png
Helen Garner
"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."

Government

Quote_1.png
Helen Garner
"But there are some wounds that can never be healed."

Sadness

bottom of page