When the children were very small, I worked in the morning only, and then gradually, as they spent full days at school, I could spend full days at work.

After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.

My favorite days were when I had a cold and could stay home from school and draw all day long.

A relentless talent for tactlessness.

Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.

They resented the patronage they depended upon.