"I don't think I have ever learned the game of men and women. To this day I regret the fact that it's like a dance I couldn't learn."
— Edna O'Brien

January 1, 1970

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From O'Brien's appearance on Desert Island Discs (BBC Radio, 14 January 2007), as quoted in "Edna O'Brien, groundbreaking Irish novelist, dies at 93", The Washington Post (28 July 2024).