I never really know the title of a book until it's finished.

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldnt have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.

Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.

My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead.

I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.