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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.
- Mary Wesley
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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.
- Mary Wesley
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I never really know the title of a book until it's finished.
- Mary Wesley
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I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.
- Mary Wesley
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I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs.
- Mary Wesley
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I don't write for any particular kind of person.
- Mary Wesley
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I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse.
- Mary Wesley
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Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.
- Mary Wesley
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A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.
- Mary Wesley
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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.
- Mary Wesley
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Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.
- Mary Wesley
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That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.
- Mary Wesley
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#People
It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.
- Mary Wesley
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Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!
- Mary Wesley
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I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.
- Mary Wesley
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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.
- Mary Wesley
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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.
- Mary Wesley
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