“I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful.”
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When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?
What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?
As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money.
One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.'
