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Vote: | A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts. |
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Vote: | A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband. |
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Vote: | A woman asking "Am I good? Am I satisfied?" is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be. |
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Vote: | A woman should say: "Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?" If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy. |
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Vote: | As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins. |
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Vote: | Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by his mother that "nice girls don't." He finds, of course, when he gets older that this may be untrue - but only in a certain section of society. |
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Vote: | I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth. |
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Vote: | I was shown round Tutankhamun's tomb in the 1920s. I saw all this wonderful pink on the walls and the artefacts. I was so impressed that I vowed to wear it for the rest of my life. |
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Vote: | The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous. |
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Vote: | The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter. |
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Dame Barbara Cartland (Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, July 9, 1901 - May 21, 2000) was one of the most successful writers of romance novels of all time — and one of the most bizarre looking, being swathed invariably in outfits of pastel chiffon and fond of makeup so theatrically thick that one wag reported that it looked as if she'd tried to eat lipstick with her eyes. Press photographs illustrated her wrapped in a white sequinned gown, gigantic aquamarines at her throat, her white-blond hair teased to gravity-defying dimensions, and resting somewhere near her manicured hand, a pouty Pekingese.
Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland was the only daughter and eldest child of a British army officer, Major Bertram Cartland, and his wife, Mary (Polly) Hamilton Scobell. Though she was born into an enviable degree of middle-class comfort, the family's security was severely shaken after the suicide of her paternal grandfather, James Cartland, a financier, who shot himself in the wake of bankruptcy, an incident that was followed soon after by Major Cartland's death on a Flanders battlefield in World War I. Her enterprising mother opened a London dress shop to make ends meet -- "Poor I may be," Polly Cartland once remarked, "but common I am not" --and to raise Cartland and her two brothers, Anthony and Ronald, both of whom were eventually killed in battle, one day apart, in 1940.
After attending Malvern Girls' College and Abbey House, an educational institution in Hampshire, Cartland became a successful journalist and a gossip columnist. Her first novel, "Jigsaw," was published in 1923.
According to an obituary published in the London Telegraph on May 22, 2000, Cartland reportedly broke off her first engagement, to a Guards officer, when she learned about the facts of life and subsequently recoiled. Eventually, she got over the shock of the physical mechanics involved and was married, from 1927 to 1932, to Alexander George McCorquodale, a former Army officer who was heir to a British printing fortune (he died in 1964). Their daughter, Raine, became "Deb of the Year" in 1947 and much later the stepmother of Diana, Princess of Wales. In 1936, after their divorce, which involved charges and countercharges of infidelity, Cartland married one of the men Alexander McCorquodale accused her of dallying with, his cousin Hugh McCorquodale. She and her second husband, a former military officer who died in 1963, had two sons, Ian and Glen.
Barbara Cartland's image as a self-appointed "expert" on romance led to her being much ridiculed in her later years, but her novels were undoubtedly very successful (she sold over 1 billion books!). Her publishers estimate that she produced a total of 724 titles.
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