The Seven Sisters Quotes

“I made her some coffee—real coffee, not instant, though I didn’t use my antique wooden grinder. I have never used my antique wooden grinder. It is useless. Then I sent her on her way. I was glad to see the back of her.”
― Margaret Drabble, The Seven Sisters

“She plays life as it comes, and learns as she goes. She’s tall and bold and firm and mannered.”
― Margaret Drabble, The Seven Sisters

“she thinks of the endlessly fascinating cut of the cards, and she smiles to herself. Bridge is an amusing game, and these women would be right to add it to their repertoire. One can never have too many holds on happiness.”
― Margaret Drabble, The Seven Sisters

“Julia’s mother is still alive and well, and living with her widowed sister in Hove. Her father, like mine, died some years ago. Women have a long afterlife, though not always a happy one.”
― Margaret Drabble, The Seven Sisters