“I am a very independent person, and I, you know, I maintain that independence, but, you know, certain things - I mean, it takes, you know, it's just much easier for other people if other people can help you every now and again.”

“Being poor with three small children is terrifying. You can't make any plans. You know you're not going on holiday, ever. There's no way you could ever afford driving lessons or a car. And the guilt I used to feel: they had holes in their shoes, and at one point, I had to send them to school wearing Wellingtons when the sun was shining.”

“I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.”

“I am a very independent person, and I, you know, I maintain that independence, but, you know, certain things - I mean, it takes, you know, it's just much easier for other people if other people can help you every now and again.”

“In the playground, I always made people laugh; I used to charge them three pence for an impression of a teacher. It kept me in toffees.”

“Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure.”

“Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?”

“She had always been comforted by confectionery”

“She was alone.She missed him immediately.”

“Alexander assured her, 'Eva, none of us know our children. Because they are not us.”

“Nothing was true for long. In time, everything was deconstructed.”