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My own parents loved each other very much.

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.

I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.

In a village you can't sack or fight with someone, as you'll find yourself stuck beside them in the hairdresser's next morning.

Leo, sadly, has Parkinson's, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.

I'm basically a very happy person and I don't have to be anybody else.

Meetings ... are rather like cocktail parties. You don't want to go, but you're cross not to be asked.

A lot of meetings are held to arrange when to have meetings ... Meetings today are usually called conferences to make them sound more significant.

I think we ought to have a kindness year, or a kindness century.

Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.

Hurting other people is not excusable because you've been hurt yourself.

I'm not wild about holidays. They always seem a ludicrously expensive way of proving there's no place like home.

Bachelors begin at thirty-six. Up till this age they are regarded as single men.

There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.

I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.

The only thing a whirlwind courtship does is blow dust in everyone's eyes.

It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office.

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.

And I would really like to be a grandmother, but only when Felix or Emily meet the right person and are ready.

Go to lots of interviews, at least one a month even when you don't need a job, to keep in training for when you do.

I've got a book coming out soon so I just must get some weight off.

For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.

I'd never have written the big books in London.

But really I'm not terribly interested in what I eat.

People who can write a book usually do.

I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook.

I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.

I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England.

If you feel compelled to give a New Year's Eve party, don't invite people to arrive too early or they'll go off the boil before midnight.

Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.