Occupation: Journalist Birth: 1928
Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future..
The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own..
I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me..
It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys..
I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does..
In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up..
Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?.
The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts..
It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation..
When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why..
The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you..
The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itse….
Being young is not having any money; being young is not minding not having any money..
A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it..
From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it..
A good marriage is like Dr Who's Tardis: small and banal from the outside but spacious and interesting from within..
I suppose we all share this pipe-dream of being able to reach out a hand and find anything at will; what is amazing is that we think that good filing….
People get a bad impression of it [the English climate] by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesd….
It beats me how Freud could say "What do women want?" as if we all must want the same thing..
The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk..
Newish friends, if they get ghastly, can be weighed and found wanting, but you'd never do a thing like that to old ones; their terrible habits are ju….