Ruth Rendell Men Quotations

Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights.

There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.

We don't say a man's ill if he's crazy about sex, if he can't get enough sex. Why should a woman be different?

I'm a very bad Christian, but I am a Christian. I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point. And socialist, well yes, of course, it's not a fashionable word, but I am very much of the Left.

Old women especially are invisible. I have been to parties where no one knows who I am, so I am ignored until I introduce myself to someone picked at random. Immediately, word gets round, and I am surrounded by people who tell me they are my biggest fans.

The treatment of patients with contaminated blood has been described as one of the most tragic episodes in the history of the NHS.

I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point.

Some women say as they get older they're no longer noticed: they disappear. Men, for instance, don't see them. Nobody wants them. That doesn't happen to me because of who I am. Not because I'm any more scintillating company, but because I'm Ruth Rendell.

Some women lose their husbands, and their worlds change because their financial circumstances change. All I have in common with them is a grief.