Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Marian Engel

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian novelist Marian Engel.

Last updated on April 15, 2025.

Marian Ruth Engel was a Canadian novelist and a founding member of the Writers' Union of Canada. Her most famous and controversial novel was Bear (1976), a tale of erotic love between an archivist and a bear.

Canadian - Novelist | May 24, 1933 - February 16, 1985

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There's a kind of virgin one only becomes with difficulty.

Marian Engel

All intellectual missionaries tend to lechery.

Marian Engel

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

There is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability.

Marian Engel

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

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

Marian Engel

Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Marian Engel

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