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Josephine Edna O'Brien (15 December 1930 – 27 July 2024) was an Irish novelist, short-story writer and playwright, who was resident in the United Kingdom from the late-1950s. Her first seven novels were banned in Ireland on publication, but she found an appreciative audience in her adopted country and in the United States.
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- The vote, I thought, means nothing to women, we should be armed.
- Girls in their Married Bliss (London: Jonathan Cape, 1964) p. 78
- Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.
- Girls in their Married Bliss (London: Jonathan Cape, 1964) p. 119
- [On the banning of (her then) four novels in Ireland] I believe that mental disturbance by literature is a healthy and invigorating thing. We have plenty of comfortable and easy prose all around us, but it's by abrasion that people's prejudices are aroused.
- "Is 'August' a Wicked Book", The Guardian (8 October 1965), p. 5
- Speaking in Dublin to promote her novel August Is a Wicked Month which was then on limited sale in the city's bookshops.
- Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
- Interviewed in Vogue (April 1985)
- It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates every corner of our existence.
- New York Times Book Review (14 February 1993)
- 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.
- 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).
- She has always ridden the passions as if they were a magnificent horse.
- Anatole Broyard, in the New York Times, January 1, 1978
- (Tell us about your favorite short story.) “Old Wounds,” by Edna O’Brien, haunts me as though I’ve lived it.
- Louise Erdrich interview (2016)
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