The vote, I thought, means nothing to women, we should be a… - Edna O'Brien

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The vote, I thought, means nothing to women, we should be armed.

Edna O'Brien

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Josephine Edna O'Brien (15 December 1930 – 27 July 2024) was an Irish novelist, short-story writer and playwright, who was resident in the United Kingdom from the late-1950s. Her first seven novels were banned in Ireland on publication, but she found an appreciative audience in her adopted country and in the United States.

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Alternative Names: Josephine Edna O'Brien

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[On the banning of (her then) four novels in Ireland] I believe that mental disturbance by literature is a healthy and invigorating thing. We have plenty of comfortable and easy prose all around us, but it's by abrasion that people's prejudices are aroused.

Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.

I don't think I have ever learned the game of men and women. To this day I regret the fact that it's like a dance I couldn't learn.

The vote, I thought, means nothing to women, we should be armed. - Edna O'Brien

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