Author Name

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

Author : Helen Garner

People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can’t deliver.

Author : Helen Garner

That’s one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

Author : Helen Garner

I think writers are very anxious.

Author : 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.

Author : Helen Garner

We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope… But, as we got older and we saw how much women’s behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as.

Author : Helen Garner

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what’s happened – almost to calm themselves.

Author : Helen Garner

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.

Author : Helen Garner

I think some people wished I’d kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I’m doing it completely intellectually.

Author : Helen Garner

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

Author : Helen Garner