Ivy Compton-Burnett

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against real life. But I think there are signs that strange things happen, though they do not emerge

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

There is nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

Real life seems to have no plots.

It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.

Real charity and a real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and truly laid.