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- To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
- I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
- Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.
- For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
- It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
- The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.