Phrase by 'Linda Grant'

Warning: We collect thousands of phrases from different public resources. We are not responsible for any incorrect content or inaccurately information related to the phrases we collect on our website. Famous phrases, proverbs, short phrases, phrases from kids. Phrases about friendship, love, cinema, family, humor, motivation, mindfullness, improvement, life and much more. Our only goal is to offer you these phrases as an inspiration so that you can make unique dedications, express your thoughts and emotions or share on your social networks. Enjoy our content.

Times were very hard if you were a poor, politically correct Jewish girl living in the east end of London during the Blitz and you were trying to eke out a living as a hairdresser.

Author: Linda Grant - British Novelist
  You , End , Girl , Poor


I was embarrassed by my parents. I thought they had nothing of interest to say or contribute to anything. My real crime was not understanding that they were interesting, and I have been trying to make it up to them for being so indescribably blase, so genuinely uninterested and dismissive.

Author: Linda Grant - British Novelist
  Nothing , Understanding , Thought , Parents


It became obvious to me that the generation who changed the world were my parents' generation, and not only in terms of the Second World War, but if you look at all the social legislation of the '60s - abortion, homosexual law reform, equal pay - it wasn't done by my generation; it was done by people who were adults.

Author: Linda Grant - British Novelist
  You , Me , People , War


I'm not shy, not reclusive, not any of those things, but the idea of a day in front of me when I have nothing to do, is just, oh what pleasure!

Author: Linda Grant - British Novelist
  Me , Day , Nothing , Shy


I'm a really hectic dreamer; I never wake up not out of a dream, and there's loads going on, lots of action, big blockbuster dreams, they're all major enterprises.

Author: Linda Grant - British Novelist
  Dreams , Dream , Action , Wake Up


When I was in my 20s in the 1970s, I read all of Jean Rhys. I have reread very little since because the first impressions were so powerful they have stayed with me.

Author: Linda Grant - British Novelist
  Me , First , Powerful , First Impressions


When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.

Author: Linda Grant - British Novelist
  Proud , Modern , Classics , Penguin


I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'

Author: Linda Grant - British Novelist
  Me , I Am , Coffee , Imagination


When I was a child, on Sunday mornings the family would assemble around the blue-leather-covered gramophone to listen to records.

Author: Linda Grant - British Novelist
  Family , Listen , Child , Sunday


Websites don't have to be complicated