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"I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage."
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"We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration."
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"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."
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"When she had first crossed the dry and dusty world which his mind inhabited she had been like a spring shower; in opening himself to it he had not been mistaken. He had gone wrong only in assuming that marriage, by itself, gave him either power or title to appropriate that freshness. As he now saw, one might as well have thought one could buy a sunset by buying the field from which one had seen it."
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"No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes."
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"Marriage is but a consolidation of resources."
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"God desires that we develop spiritual muscle so we are strong enough to be His kind of wife."
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"Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won't matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength."
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"The romantic person instinctively sees marriage in terms of emotions, but what a couple actually gets up to together over a lifetime has much more in common with the workings of a small business. They must draw up work rosters, clean, chauffeur, cook, fix, throw away, mind, hire, fire, reconcile, and budget."
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"Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage."
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"Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement."
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"It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought."
Life
"Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse."
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"I will never retire."
Will
"My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as."
People
"Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds."
People
"I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism."
Care
"I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff."
Timidity
"When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship."
Life
"Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make."
Progress
"I have never been attracted to any kind of violence."
Pacifism
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