I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.
Colleen McCulloughThe Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.
Colleen McCulloughIf you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!
Colleen McCulloughOld age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.
Colleen McCullough