Deirdre Madden

Quotes

• “I watched plays with the kind of voracity with which small children read books; with the same visceral passion, the same...”
• “But this was the first occasion I had come across someone for whom art was a means of avoiding reality rather than confr...”
• “It is a kind of geisha containment, a shutteredness, a withdrawal and negation. It's as if she is capable of sensing whe...”
• “I realise that a certain school of thought says that who we are is something we construct for ourselves. We build our se...”
• “Rejection only made the attachment stronger. I realized that the impossibility of connection was a driving force behind ...”