The Lady Who Liked Clean Restrooms Quotes

“Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady.”
― J.P. Donleavy, The Lady Who Liked Clean Restrooms

“See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.”
― J.P. Donleavy, The Lady Who Liked Clean Restrooms

“She thought too that women didn't know what to do with themselves these days which could turn them into harridans. Hardly a female friend she knew wasn't miserable. Either mind dumb with children, or in the married condition married to an earnest toiler, or lonely unmarried in their successful career.”
― J.P. Donleavy, The Lady Who Liked Clean Restrooms

“The only slight disconcertance being that in the middle of looking at a paintings [in the Museum of Modern Art] she always found herself desperately needing to take a pee. And grandmother's voice in her ear.

'My dear, if you really have to, only clean, very clean rest rooms will do.”
― J.P. Donleavy, The Lady Who Liked Clean Restrooms

“How when one is able to indulge the luxury of beginning one's life again.

All one thinks
To do
Is end it”
― J.P. Donleavy, The Lady Who Liked Clean Restrooms