A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

Good must triumph over evil. It usually does in life and in any case it's bad for young people to believe it doesn't.

People don't roll around naked in my books. I do allow them to go to bed if they're married, but it's all very wonderful and the moon beams.

I always wear boot polish on my eyelashes, because I am a very emotional person and it doesn't run when I cry.

When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.

To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.

Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by his mother that "nice girls don't." He finds, of course, when he gets older that this may be untrue-but only in a certain section of society.