I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don’t trust women. There is a built-in competition between women. – Edna O’Brien
I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness. – Edna O’Brien
In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: ‘Is there someone new?’ – Edna O’Brien
Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire. – Edna O’Brien
Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it. – Edna O’Brien
My hand does the work and I don’t have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It’s like a dam in the brain that bursts. – Edna O’Brien
