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

no one had experiences any more, only traumas.

The sun burnt on, drugging everything with warmth.

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.

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

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

It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.