What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.

You can't win every week.

I'd go without food if I could have a flower.

[Margaret] Thatcher had just become prime minister; there was talk about whether it was an advance to have a woman prime minister if it was someone with policies like hers: She may be a woman but she isn't a sister, she may be a sister but she isn't a comrade.

NELL. Because that's what an employer is going to have doubts about with a lady as I needn't tell you, whether she's got the guts to push through to a closing situation. They think we're too nice. They think we listen to the buyer's doubts. They think we consider his needs and his feelings.

How could I go on my travels without that sweet soul waiting at home for my letters?