Factory Girls Quotes

“No matter how shitty things got for a man, they were always shittier for a woman.”
― Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls

“I guess failure is like posh,' Maeve said. 'Relative.”
― Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls

“Deirdre never uttered another word about what a man's urges had led up to in Belfast. And Maeve - who'd learned young to obey her community's pact of silence - had never asked.”
― Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls

“Deirdre never utter another word about what a man's urges had led up to in Belfast. And Maeve - who'd learned young to obey her community's pact of silence - had never asked.”
― Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls

“What you don’t get is I’m not even Irish– not proper Irish. I just want tae be. But all I am to the Free Staters is a dirty Northerner. I’m as pathetic as the Prods trying to be British when your lot think they’re just a pack of Paddies. You don’t want them. Them down south don’t want us. Everyone just wants us to crawl away and die some place dark where they don’t have to listen to us squealing for attention.”
― Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls