Growing Wild In The Shade Quotes

“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.’ ‘Invictus, by William Ernest Henley,”
― Jean Grainger, Growing Wild In The Shade

“The gender balance is improving, no doubt about it, but women are fifty per cent of the population so shouldn’t they be fifty per cent of judges, barristers, doctors, teachers, whatever?”
― Jean Grainger, Growing Wild In The Shade

“Maybe this is overly simplistic but I honestly believe if women had more to do with societal decisions then things would”
― Jean Grainger, Growing Wild In The Shade

“There’s no getting away from the fact that money, white skin and being male immediately puts you in a place of privilege in this world.”
― Jean Grainger, Growing Wild In The Shade

“Kate hides her disappointment well, I remember when they were little and they insisted on being dressed the same, and Kate would still love to do it but Ellie at fourteen has a very sensitive ‘morto-meter’ as Kieran calls it, and would rather eat her own arm than do it now. The list of things that Ellie finds mortifying in our family is growing by the day. Currently it includes our car, his van, him and me, Kate, our house, my taste in music, Kieran’s taste in music, words I use, and oh about a million other things.”
― Jean Grainger, Growing Wild In The Shade

“You know the type. He’s like Jeremy Irons but if you ordered him from one of those cheap Chinese websites. Almost right but not quite.”
― Jean Grainger, Growing Wild In The Shade

“Women speaking or not speaking is all the same to him, he can't hear them either way.”
― Jean Grainger, Growing Wild In The Shade