My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes for it and when she is old she remembers it.

A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.

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

A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.

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.