Patricia Duncker Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. June 29, 1951
Birthday: June 29
Love is not feeling, child, nor even the passion of lovers, which always seeks only its own gratification. It is the act of caring, of giving, the act of protecting the weak, the helpless, the imprisoned and the desperate. Love is the hand raised in defence. You cannot love and keep your hands clean.
source: Patricia Duncker (1999). “James Miranda Barry”
topic: Children, Passion, Caring, Desperate Love
