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Top 15 Marian Engel Quotes (2025 Update)

Marian Engel Quote: “Bear,” she cried. “I love you. Pull my head off.”

1. “Bear,” she cried. “I love you. Pull my head off.”

— Marian Engel

Marian Engel Quote: “There is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability.”

2. “There is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability.”

— Marian Engel

Marian Engel Quote: “I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed.”

3. “I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed.”

— Marian Engel

Marian Engel Quote: “Remember that it is not enough to have everything around you beautiful, remember that there must also be change and flux, because it is through change that we pretend that we can make decisions, and keep our pride, and go on pretending that both change and choice exist.”

4. “Remember that it is not enough to have everything around you beautiful, remember that there must also be change and flux, because it is through change that we pretend that we can make decisions, and keep our pride, and go on pretending that both change and choice exist.”

— Marian Engel

Marian Engel Quote: “So this was her kingdom: an octagonal house, a roomful of books, and a bear.”

5. “So this was her kingdom: an octagonal house, a roomful of books, and a bear.”

— Marian Engel

Marian Engel Quote: “Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it.”

6. “Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it.”

— Marian Engel

Marian Engel Quote: “She makes her little house to shine, she thought.”

7. “She makes her little house to shine, she thought.”

— Marian Engel

Marian Engel Quote: “There’s a kind of virgin one only becomes with difficulty.”

8. “There’s a kind of virgin one only becomes with difficulty.”

— Marian Engel

Marian Engel Quote: “Because what she disliked in men was not their eroticism, but their assumption that women had none. Which left women with nothing to be but housemaids.”

9. “Because what she disliked in men was not their eroticism, but their assumption that women had none. Which left women with nothing to be but housemaids.”

— Marian Engel

Marian Engel Quote: “She always attempted to be orderly, to catalogue her thoughts and feelings, so that when the awful, anarchic inner voice caught her out, her mind was stocked with efficacious replies. “What am I doing here?” could be answered with lists. She had another stock of replies to “Who the hell do you think you are, attempting to be alive?” She justified herself by saying that she was of service, that she ordered fragments of other lives.”

10. “She always attempted to be orderly, to catalogue her thoughts and feelings, so that when the awful, anarchic inner voice caught her out, her mind was stocked with efficacious replies. “What am I doing here?” could be answered with lists. She had another stock of replies to “Who the hell do you think you are, attempting to be alive?” She justified herself by saying that she was of service, that she ordered fragments of other lives.”

— Marian Engel

Marian Engel Quote: “All intellectual missionaries tend to lechery.”

11. “All intellectual missionaries tend to lechery.”

— Marian Engel

Marian Engel Quote: “Fishwives. Fishwidows. And we all set out to be mermaids.”

12. “Fishwives. Fishwidows. And we all set out to be mermaids.”

— Marian Engel

Marian Engel Quote: “The Canadian tradition was, she had found, on the whole genteel. Any evidence that an ancestor had performed any acts other than working and praying was usually destroyed. Families handily became respectable in retrospect but it was... hell on history.”

13. “The Canadian tradition was, she had found, on the whole genteel. Any evidence that an ancestor had performed any acts other than working and praying was usually destroyed. Families handily became respectable in retrospect but it was... hell on history.”

— Marian Engel

Marian Engel Quote: “The world was furred with late spring snow. It was the soft, thick stuff that excites you unless you are driving or half dead, packing snow already falling in caterpillars off the greening branches.”

14. “The world was furred with late spring snow. It was the soft, thick stuff that excites you unless you are driving or half dead, packing snow already falling in caterpillars off the greening branches.”

— Marian Engel

Marian Engel Quote: “In the winter, she lived like a mole, buried deep in her office, digging among maps and manuscripts.”

15. “In the winter, she lived like a mole, buried deep in her office, digging among maps and manuscripts.”

— Marian Engel

Marian Engel Quote: “She was trying to decide to regard the black flies as a good symptom of the liveliness of the North, a sign that nature will never capitulate, that man is red in tooth and claw but there is something that cannot be controlled by him, when a critter no larger than a fruitfly tore a hunk out of her shin through her trousers.”

16. “She was trying to decide to regard the black flies as a good symptom of the liveliness of the North, a sign that nature will never capitulate, that man is red in tooth and claw but there is something that cannot be controlled by him, when a critter no larger than a fruitfly tore a hunk out of her shin through her trousers.”

— Marian Engel

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