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 always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse.

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

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.