Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
“I like being married. I like taking care of people, having someone to make dinner for.”
“I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there.”