Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge, DBE is an English novelist.
A five-time nominee for the Booker Prize, Bainbridge has never won. She has nonetheless been described as "a national treasure".
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“Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood”
Beryl Bainbridge
“It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.”
“It's all changed now, which is why it mattered to those young men from Liverpool that they should be there to support their team.”
“When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly.”
“I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.”
“Oh, I made her, ... When I couldn't get reception on the television, I had to have something to hold up the aerial.”