It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.
Ruth RendellWhen one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.
Ruth RendellThere are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.
Ruth RendellTen thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.
Ruth Rendell