Edith Sitwell: Quotes about people
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“I am resigned to the fact that people who don't know me loathe me.”
The Last Years of a Rebel (1967)
Context: I am resigned to the fact that people who don't know me loathe me. Perhaps it is because I am a woman writing poetry. It must be annoying to a man who wants to write to see this horrid old lady who can.
“A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.”
As quoted in Writers on Writing (1986) by Jon Winokur, p. 24
Source: Taken Care Of (1965), Ch. 15
“People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.”
Source: The Last Years of a Rebel (1967), p. 24