Shelagh Delaney Quotes

Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.

A woman's got as much right -and more cause - to get drunk than any man

Nothing passes. Everything stays with you. Everything makes it’s mark.

You need someone to love you while you are looking for someone to love.

The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.

I’m not afraid of the darkness outside. It’s the darkness inside houses I don’t like.

Anything's hard to find if you go around looking for it with your eyes shut.

Why don't you learn from my mistakes? It takes half your life to learn from your own.

Life is a game - sometimes serious, sometimes fun - but a game that must be played with true team spirit.

My usual self is a very unusual self.

There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living.

I have heard people say that they drink to forget their sorrows but the more I drink the more sorrows I collect

You can remember the second and the third and the fourth time, but there's no time like the first. It's always there.

I am here and I am safe and I am sick of it.

[On England:] In this country there are only two seasons, winter and winter.