Quote by: Muriel Spark

it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.


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  • NameMuriel Spark
  • DescriptionScottish writer
  • AliasesMuriel Sarah Camberg
  • BornFebruary 1, 1918
  • DiedApril 13, 2006
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Poet; Novelist; Playwright; Editor
  • WorksThe Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie; The Mandelbaum Gate; The Driver's Seat; Memento Mori; The Comforters; The Ballad Of Peckham Rye; The Bachelors; The Girls Of Slender Means; The Public Image; The Takeover; Territorial Rights; Loitering With Intent; A Far Cry From Kensington; Symposium; Aiding And Abetting; The Finishing School
  • AwardsDame Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire; James Tait Black Memorial Prize