It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind, and as a positive good in itself. For the day that… — Jill Tweedie Copy Share Image
My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race. — Jill Tweedie Copy Share Image
It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far more invigorating to see it as… — Jill Tweedie Copy Share Image
My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than… — Jill Tweedie Copy Share Image
writing had to take the form of journalism. Not for me the Shangri-la of fiction. The rewards, if any, would have been too little… — Jill Tweedie Copy Share Image
I am still sure of absolute wrong but much less certain of absolute right. — Jill Tweedie Copy Share Image
I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy interest in… — Jill Tweedie Copy Share Image
Children are a plant substitute and we haven't the wit to see it until too late — Jill Tweedie Copy Share Image
