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. That’s terribly important, especially for a writer. Mary Wesley Read Quote
Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I’ve 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 Read Quote
I was sent to a finishing school, which didn’t last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I ‘came out’ before going to a domestic science school. Mary Wesley Read Quote
I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn’t have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals. Mary Wesley Read Quote
I always read that men don’t like intelligent girls, but I’ve always found the reverse. Mary Wesley Read Quote
Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what’s going on in another person’s marriage. Mary Wesley Read Quote