The Queen of the Tambourine Quotes

“But there's time yet. The old women of the tribe have almost always been the wiser. If they keep their marbles long enough. Old men forget--or tend to reminisce, and reminisce falsely and sententiously as a rule. We are often very silly in our middle years but we tend to improve”
― Jane Gardam, The Queen of the Tambourine

“It’s—I’m sorry, Eliza—it’s the way you make a fool of yourself now. He says that you have crumbled. Nobody now would dream you had been to a university. Your prudence did not develop. Say what you like about equality of mind, prudence is usually a male attribute, especially in the Civil Service where of course there are still very few women, as we know. Making judgments is a female failing, justified by the dangerous word ‘instinct.”
― Jane Gardam, The Queen of the Tambourine

“She wishes there were only dead authors. Living ones are beneath her attention.”
― Jane Gardam, The Queen of the Tambourine