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Mary Wesley | science

I was sent to a finishing school, which didn’t last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I ‘came out’ before going to a domestic science school.

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Mary Wesley | marriage

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

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Mary Wesley | marriage

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what’s going on in another person’s marriage.

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Mary Wesley | marriage

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

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Mary Wesley | learning

We’re all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

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Mary Wesley | learning

That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don’t understand.

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Mary Wesley | imagination

I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia’s appearances to the reader’s imagination.

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Mary Wesley | imagination

Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I’ve fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.

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Mary Wesley | courage

Women’s courage is rather different from men’s. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.

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Mary Wesley | car

Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn’t afford to run a car.

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