Enid Bagnold

"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again."

- Enid Bagnold

"When a man goes through six years [training to be a doctor], he will not be the same. He knows too much."

- Enid Bagnold

"Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. … It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus."

- Enid Bagnold

""No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.""

- Enid Bagnold

"Before you fall asleep every day, say something positive to yourself."

- Enid Bagnold