Sue Townsend Quotes & Sayings
49 most famous Sue Townsend quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for her. She was a British novelist who passed away on 10 April, 2014.
“I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.'”
“When I was a child, I dreaded blindness. We used to ask: 'Would we rather be blind or deaf?' I said I'd rather be blind, even though I was scared of it. I couldn't bear not being able to hear music or talk to people.”
“I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.”
“I am surrounded by counselors. My sister is a counselor. My daughter is training to be a counselor. A lot of my friends are counselors.”
“Live with all of your senses.”
“I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.”
“I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.”
“Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.”
“I could have been a better mother. My children assure me it was fine. But when you are running to catch the train to go to a rehearsal, and you know your kid has a hacking cough... We said we can have it all and do it all: I can have four children, write three plays a year and a book, go from Leicester to London, and come back at midnight.”
“The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.”
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