Top 48 Quotes by Sue Townsend

I used to think I had nice arms, but I don't even think that anymore.

'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one person. It led me to read a lot of Russian literature.

Live with all of your senses.

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 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.

Sometimes I rant, in a comical way, about how the gods give with one hand and take with the other.

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

In the playground, I always made people laugh; I used to charge them three pence for an impression of a teacher. It kept me in toffees.

I always wanted to be Jo in 'Little Women.' She's a bit reckless and feckless, always getting into trouble like me. But I'm probably more like Madame Bovary.

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.