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title: "1 Like Tide Quotes By Kathy Lette"
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> [Love is like a tide. When it's in, everything looks beautiful and inviting. Only when love recedes can you see the debris beneath the surface - the old bottles, the rusty prams, the sewage pipes, the bloated cats and dogs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathy-lette/love-is-like-a-tide-when-it-s-in-everything-looks-beautiful-and/)

[Kathy Lette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathy-lette/)

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## More by Kathy Lette

> [Good art is in the wallet of the beholder.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathy-lette/good-art-is-in-the-wallet-of-the-beholder/)

[Kathy Lette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathy-lette/)

> [Believe me, having a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathy-lette/believe-me-having-a-teenage-daughter-is-like-living-with-the-taliban/)

[Kathy Lette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathy-lette/)

> [Any woman who calls herself a post-feminist should keep her Wonderbra and burn her brains.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathy-lette/any-woman-who-calls-herself-a-post-feminist-should-keep-her-wonderbra/)

[Kathy Lette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathy-lette/)

> [If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathy-lette/if-the-nobel-prize-was-awarded-by-a-woman-it-would-go-to-the-inventor/)

[Kathy Lette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathy-lette/)

> [Love is like a tide. When it's in, everything looks beautiful and inviting. Only when love recedes can you see the debris beneath the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathy-lette/love-is-like-a-tide-when-it-s-in-everything-looks-beautiful-and/)

[Kathy Lette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathy-lette/)

> [What creates a writer is huge, psychological dysfunction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathy-lette/what-creates-a-writer-is-huge-psychological-dysfunction/)

[Kathy Lette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathy-lette/)

> [As a breastfeeding mother you are basically just meals on heels.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathy-lette/as-a-breastfeeding-mother-you-are-basically-just-meals-on-heels/)

[Kathy Lette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathy-lette/)

> [Basically it's just a whole bunch of blokes standing around scratching themselves](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathy-lette/basically-it-s-just-a-whole-bunch-of-blokes-standing-around/)

[Kathy Lette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathy-lette/)

> [Men think monogamy is something you make dining tables out of.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathy-lette/men-think-monogamy-is-something-you-make-dining-tables-out-of/)

[Kathy Lette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathy-lette/)

> [I speak as your native guide to the mysterious tribe called the English. Dress code is everything. You can be a card-carrying Nazi, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathy-lette/i-speak-as-your-native-guide-to-the-mysterious-tribe-called-the/)

[Kathy Lette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathy-lette/)

> [“When you've been around as long as me, Lucy, you'll know that there are three types of sex... One - brand-new, kitchen-table sex. Two…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathy-lette/when-you-ve-been-around-as-long-as-me-lucy-you-ll-know-that-there-are/)

[Kathy Lette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathy-lette/)

> [Teenagers are obviously God's punishment for having sex in the first place.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathy-lette/teenagers-are-obviously-god-s-punishment-for-having-sex-in-the-first/)

[Kathy Lette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathy-lette/)

> [Well if manners maketh man make-up maketh woman.And we don't need a phalanx of behavioural scientists to explain why man judge women by their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathy-lette/well-if-manners-maketh-man-make-up-maketh-woman-and-we-don-t-need-a/)

[Kathy Lette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathy-lette/)

> [I am allergic to domestic goddesses. Men would prefer a woman with a dirty mind to a clean house.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathy-lette/i-am-allergic-to-domestic-goddesses-men-would-prefer-a-woman-with-a/)

[Kathy Lette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathy-lette/)

> [Every woman wants to be wanted - just not by the entire Metropolitan police force.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathy-lette/every-woman-wants-to-be-wanted-just-not-by-the-entire-metropolitan/)

[Kathy Lette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathy-lette/)

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