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Mary Wesley

Mary Wesley, CBE (24 June 191230 December 2002) was an English novelist. During her career, she was one of Britain's most successful novelists, selling three million copies of her books, including 10 bestsellers in the last 20 years of her life.

Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.

Tags: Living, Lovely, Run

Mary Wesley

Women's courage is rather different from men's. 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.

Tags: Women, Men, Business

Mary Wesley

I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.

Tags: Left, Reader, Julia

Mary Wesley

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.

Tags: Life, Love, Someone

Mary Wesley

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

Tags: Believe, Tried, Golden

Mary Wesley

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

Tags: Great, Mother, Father

Mary Wesley

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.

Tags: Successful, Strong, Important

Mary Wesley

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.

Tags: Children, Remember, Did

Mary Wesley

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.

Tags: Mother, School, Long

Mary Wesley