Jilly Cooper Quotes

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• I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.
• At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.
• Youve simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know…
• I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.
• I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.
• I think we ought to have a kindness year, or a kindness century.
• I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.
• It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office.
• There is nothing more attractive than a man who is not a New Man.
• My own parents loved each other very much.
• I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.
• And I would really like to be a grandmother, but only when Felix or Emily meet the right person and are ready.
• I'd never have written the big books in London.
• But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a…
• I'm basically a very happy person and I don't have to be anybody else.
• I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.
• But really I'm not terribly interested in what I eat.
• For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.
• I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook.
• Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.

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