Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.

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

Well, I woke up one morning around Christmas, went as far as the shops, and when I got to the corner I felt this violent pain in me left leg. I mentioned it to my daughter and she took me instantly to the hospital. It turned out it was vasculitis. In other words, you can have your leg off.

The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.

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

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.