If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.

A relentless talent for tactlessness.

Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.

They resented the patronage they depended upon.

No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe.