Marina Warner Quotes & Sayings

“One of the achievements of our generation of feminists was to emancipate women from the division between being interested in clothes and appearance, and being serious and ambitious. I am of the first generation that could go to Biba, wear miniskirts and get a degree.”

“The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.”

“If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.”

“I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.”

“I avoid looking in the mirror.”

“I shop online because I don't like to try things on in front of an alien mirror.”

“When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.”