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My own parents loved each other very much. — Jilly Cooper

In the end, I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper. — Caitlin Moran

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Jilly Cooper

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

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

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows. — Jilly Cooper

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Jilly Cooper

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

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

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

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

People who can write a book usually do. — Jilly Cooper

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

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

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

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. — Jilly Cooper

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

I do read on holiday, but it tends to be very lowbrow. I'm into really camp biographies, and I'm a shameless fan of Jilly Cooper. — Miranda Raison