Helen Garner

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall. ↗

— Helen Garner

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I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence. ↗

— Helen Garner

#disturbed #i #very #violence #women

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society. ↗

— Helen Garner

#development #going #interest #like #me

But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed. ↗

— Helen Garner

#bashed #bear #been #call #i

But there are some wounds that can never be healed. ↗

— Helen Garner

#never #some #wounds

I like poking my nose into other people's lives. ↗

— Helen Garner

#into #like #lives #nose #other

I think writers are very anxious. ↗

— Helen Garner

#i #i think #think #very #writers

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life. ↗

— Helen Garner

#else #into #life #privilege #see

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth. ↗

— Helen Garner

#behaviour #destructive #destructiveness #disturbing #echoes

Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions. ↗

— Helen Garner

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