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Jilly Cooper
British
Author
About the author
There is nothing more attractive than a man who is not a New Man.
Jilly Cooper,
British
Author
#Nothing
#Man
I've got a book coming out soon so I just must get some weight off.
Jilly Cooper,
British
Author
#Weight
If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is happening in each of them. It's like a mural.
Jilly Cooper,
British
Author
#Houses
It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office.
Jilly Cooper,
British
Author
#Pressure
#Office
Leo, sadly, has Parkinson's, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.
Jilly Cooper,
British
Author
My own parents loved each other very much.
Jilly Cooper,
British
Author
#Parents
Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.
Jilly Cooper,
British
Author
#Will
#Coffee
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.
Jilly Cooper,
British
Author
#Kindness
#Firmness
You've simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether they'll be there tomorrow, do you?
Jilly Cooper,
British
Author
#Love
#Family
#Friends
#Tomorrow
I'm basically a very happy person and I don't have to be anybody else.
Jilly Cooper,
British
Author
I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook.
Jilly Cooper,
British
Author
#Man
#Nature
The bank told us we ought to sell this house to pay off our overdraft. Riders saved the day. I was so pleased when it got to number one, I went all around the fields crying and crying.
Jilly Cooper,
British
Author
#Day
But really I'm not terribly interested in what I eat.
Jilly Cooper,
British
Author
I'd never have written the big books in London.
Jilly Cooper,
British
Author
#Books
#London
But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.
Jilly Cooper,
British
Author
#God
#Word
#Tax
For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.
Jilly Cooper,
British
Author
#Man
#Funny
I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.
Jilly Cooper,
British
Author
#Happiness
#Theory
I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.
Jilly Cooper,
British
Author
#Want
#Work
#Home
I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.
Jilly Cooper,
British
Author
#Love
I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.
Jilly Cooper,
British
Author
#Time
#Family
I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.
Jilly Cooper,
British
Author
And I would really like to be a grandmother, but only when Felix or Emily meet the right person and are ready.
Jilly Cooper,
British
Author
#Right
I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.
Jilly Cooper,
British
Author
#Wife
#Being
At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.
Jilly Cooper,
British
Author
#Home