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Mary Wesley Quotes
A lot of people stop short. They dont actually die but they say, Right Im old, and Im going to retire, and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring. - Mary Wesley Quotes
Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know whats going on in another persons marriage. - Mary Wesley Quotes
I always read that men dont like intelligent girls, but Ive always found the reverse. - Mary Wesley Quotes
I dont write for any particular kind of person. - Mary Wesley Quotes
I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs. - Mary Wesley Quotes
I have a garden, and Im passionately interested in young people. - Mary Wesley Quotes
I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julias appearances to the readers imagination. - Mary Wesley Quotes
I never really know the title of a book until its finished. - Mary Wesley Quotes
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. - Mary Wesley Quotes
I was living at home with my parents and went out with young men who continually put me down, saying, Didnt you know that? Youre so ignorant. - Mary Wesley Quotes
I was sent to a finishing school, which didnt last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I came out before going to a domestic science school. - Mary Wesley Quotes
Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and Ive 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. - Mary Wesley Quotes
In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. Thats terribly important, especially for a writer. - Mary Wesley Quotes
It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere. - Mary Wesley Quotes
It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country. - Mary Wesley Quotes
Its not a one-way trip; men persuade women, human beings manage each other. Now its called manipulation. We manage our children. - Mary Wesley Quotes
Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write. - Mary Wesley Quotes
My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20. - Mary Wesley Quotes
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 hed go right ahead. - Mary Wesley Quotes
Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but its a lot of fun! - Mary Wesley Quotes
People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier. - Mary Wesley Quotes
Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety. - Mary Wesley Quotes
That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they dont understand. - Mary Wesley Quotes
The families descended from these fishing folk are still here in the West Country and a wonderful exchange between the countries exists today. - Mary Wesley Quotes
They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises. - Mary Wesley Quotes
Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldnt afford to run a car. - Mary Wesley Quotes
Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. Theyre often much happier, because they dont go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love. - Mary Wesley Quotes
We all lie to each other, present some sort of front. - Mary Wesley Quotes
Were 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. - Mary Wesley Quotes
Womens courage is rather different from mens. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle. - Mary Wesley Quotes
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