Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many people got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappily married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?

— Sue Townsend

Alexander assured her, 'Eva, none of us know our children. Because they are not us.

— Sue Townsend

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 Galoshes when the sun was shining.

— Sue Townsend

I am a very independent person, and I, you know, I maintain that independence, but, you know, certain things - I mean, it takes, you know, it's just much easier for other people if other people can help you every now and again.

— Sue Townsend

I have a slight addiction to Diet Coke, and, of course, I absolutely shouldn't touch it because it makes the kidneys work really hard.

— Sue Townsend

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.

— Sue Townsend

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.

— 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.

— Sue Townsend

Nothing was true for long. In time, everything was deconstructed.

— Sue Townsend

She had always been comforted by confectionery

— Sue Townsend