Quotes by : Brigid Brophy

Sentimentalist” is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby....

When sonneteering Wordsworth re-creates the landing of Mary Queen of Scots at the mouth of the Derwent....

The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind....

I told some imprecisely imagined interlocutor that each year I hoped to have outgrown being moved by....

Manners are for those who have neither beauty or talent but want people to like them despite their lack....

In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain.....

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.....