I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.

I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

Moonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow.

The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.