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Top 15 Caroline O'Donoghue Quotes (2025 Update)

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “Our company is teeming with women under thirty, and men approaching or over fifty. That is how the food chain works. Dozens of attractive young women do the grunt work for a handful of men, and the women get filtered out by motherhood. It is the corporate version of natural selection.”

1. “Our company is teeming with women under thirty, and men approaching or over fifty. That is how the food chain works. Dozens of attractive young women do the grunt work for a handful of men, and the women get filtered out by motherhood. It is the corporate version of natural selection.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “Turning people against one another is a very good distraction technique while you accumulate power.”

2. “Turning people against one another is a very good distraction technique while you accumulate power.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “She learned to listen for the right sounds by tuning the wrong sounds out, and it had a permanent effect on her personality. If someone says something she doesn’t want to hear, she simply decides not to hear it.”

3. “She learned to listen for the right sounds by tuning the wrong sounds out, and it had a permanent effect on her personality. If someone says something she doesn’t want to hear, she simply decides not to hear it.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “I was afraid, really, of being the main character in my own life. I choose to be someone that things happen to, because it was easier than being someone who made things happen.”

4. “I was afraid, really, of being the main character in my own life. I choose to be someone that things happen to, because it was easier than being someone who made things happen.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “There’s a kind of glamour to be chosen, I think. I understand it, but it still makes me feel sick.”

5. “There’s a kind of glamour to be chosen, I think. I understand it, but it still makes me feel sick.”

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Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “I had always been brought up to think of plastic trees as tacky, that big dogs were better than small dogs, that potato waffles were common. So many of my beliefs about the world had been predicated on our once having had money.”

6. “I had always been brought up to think of plastic trees as tacky, that big dogs were better than small dogs, that potato waffles were common. So many of my beliefs about the world had been predicated on our once having had money.”

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Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “Lily isn’t dirty, per se; it’s just that she doesn’t really like to live in her body. She doesn’t like to notice it. If she could just be a brain in a jar, reading books and drawing, she’d be much happier.”

7. “Lily isn’t dirty, per se; it’s just that she doesn’t really like to live in her body. She doesn’t like to notice it. If she could just be a brain in a jar, reading books and drawing, she’d be much happier.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “Perhaps it’s because so many people claim Irishness that we keep putting our private jokes on higher and higher shelves, so you have to ask a member of staff to get them down for you.”

8. “Perhaps it’s because so many people claim Irishness that we keep putting our private jokes on higher and higher shelves, so you have to ask a member of staff to get them down for you.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously.”

9. “I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “I’m not really into make-up or jewellery or anything, but I feel like... the only reason I’m not is because everyone expect you to be, as a girl, y’know? Like, whenever I put it on, I’m so aware of how I’m supposed to be wearing it. It kind of ruins the whole experience.”

10. “I’m not really into make-up or jewellery or anything, but I feel like... the only reason I’m not is because everyone expect you to be, as a girl, y’know? Like, whenever I put it on, I’m so aware of how I’m supposed to be wearing it. It kind of ruins the whole experience.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “We ran into them at a Goldfrapp gig. They attended it the way I go to gigs with my own husband now – fun, dinner first, home by eleven, something to do. There’s only a short stretch in your life where you can attend gigs with spiritual commitment.”

11. “We ran into them at a Goldfrapp gig. They attended it the way I go to gigs with my own husband now – fun, dinner first, home by eleven, something to do. There’s only a short stretch in your life where you can attend gigs with spiritual commitment.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “Anything people come together to believe in is real. Intense, passionate energy that is focused on one spot will create something.”

12. “Anything people come together to believe in is real. Intense, passionate energy that is focused on one spot will create something.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “I don’t know who I was trying to impress. I did not want a boyfriend; I did want romance. I wanted passion; I did not want to be someone who was known as easy. I was desperate to be touched; I was terrified of being ruined.”

13. “I don’t know who I was trying to impress. I did not want a boyfriend; I did want romance. I wanted passion; I did not want to be someone who was known as easy. I was desperate to be touched; I was terrified of being ruined.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “We, in that way siblings do for outsiders, tried to make a travelling circus out of our childhood. Stories about old holiday rentals and falling out of trees.”

14. “We, in that way siblings do for outsiders, tried to make a travelling circus out of our childhood. Stories about old holiday rentals and falling out of trees.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “I thought of my parents as heads on Easter Island, and it took moving two miles away to realise they had been people all along.”

15. “I thought of my parents as heads on Easter Island, and it took moving two miles away to realise they had been people all along.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “He was a doctor and I was supposed to take what he said seriously; but he was a dentist and my dad so I didn’t.”

16. “He was a doctor and I was supposed to take what he said seriously; but he was a dentist and my dad so I didn’t.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

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