Sue Townsend quotes

There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems. (Sue Townsend)
I took my sight and mobility for granted. View quote
Sue Townsend
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. View quote
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She liked people. Me, I can take them or leave them, but mostly leave them. View quote
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Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word. It all adds up. A bad home, poor diet, not liking punk. I think I will join the library and see what happens. View quote
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Being poor with three small children is terrifying. You can't make any plans. You know you're not going on holiday, ever. There's no way you could ever afford driving lessons or a car. And the guilt I used to feel: they had holes in their shoes, and at one point, I had to send them to school wearing Wellingtons when the sun was shining. View quote
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Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice. View quote
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Sometimes I rant, in a comical way, about how the gods give with one hand and take with the other. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Sue Townsend)
I'd love a day devoid of responsibilities. I've often thought about going to a hotel just to have a day away from everything. View quote
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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.' View quote
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Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure. View quote
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I am the world's worst diabetic. View quote
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Watching 'The Jeremy Kyle Show' is my guilty pleasure. View quote
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Yes, I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure'. It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador. View quote
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Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it. View quote
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I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house. View quote
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The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance. View quote
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I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed. (Sue Townsend)