Shirley Conran Quotes

#1. Losing your innocence has very little to do with virginity, you know. Loss of innocence comes when you have to deal with the real world by yourself, when you learn that the first rule of life is kill or be killed. So different from one's nursery stories." She

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#2. You're never too old to grow up.

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#3. I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.

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#4. Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

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#5. At eighteen I thought I knew everything, then at thirty, I realized that I knew nothing--and possibly never would, which depressed me until I noticed that no one else knew anything either.

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#6. Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.

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#7. Being pregnant was, well, inconceivable.

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#8. Which one of you bitches is my mother?

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#9. With color, for the price of a pot of paint, people can express their own style and individuality. But, as with style, a gift for color has to be developed by experiment. If you don't dare, you are doomed to dullness.

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#10. A Superwoman isn't a woman who can do anything, but a woman who avoids doing too much.

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