I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.
I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees. - Sue Townsend
I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.
- Sue Townsend
I've always loved books. I'm passionate about them. I think books are sexy. They are smooth and solid and contain delightful surprises. They smell go… - Sue Townsend
I've always loved books. I'm passionate about them. I think books are sexy. They are smooth and solid and contain delightful surprises. They smell go…
I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house. - Sue Townsend
I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house.
I think it's essential for comic writers to have a hate figure, a despot, a regime to react against, and I think Thatcher was perfect for me, I loath… - Sue Townsend
I think it's essential for comic writers to have a hate figure, a despot, a regime to react against, and I think Thatcher was perfect for me, I loath…
8.45 a.m. My mother is in the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. She is looking old and haggard. All the debauchery is catching up with her. - Sue Townsend
8.45 a.m. My mother is in the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. She is looking old and haggard. All the debauchery is catching up with her.
Yes, I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure'. It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador. - Sue Townsend
Yes, I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure'. It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador.
Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice. - Sue Townsend
Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.
Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it. - Sue Townsend
Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.
I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be p… - Sue Townsend
I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be p…
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