I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Being young is not having any money; being young is not minding not having any money.

A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance to kiss the Managing Director (however bizarre an ambition this may seem to anyone who has seen the Managing Director face on).