Open to question
IT’S OK to say you don’t know, you’re unsure; perhaps preferable. Deeply human and honest.
Nikki Gemmell
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A woman scorned
SYLVIA Plath didn’t get the chance to ever know how powerfully her work would connect.
Perfect 10
PARENTHOOD is a state of siege. I know that now. Mainly chosen, welcomed, revelled in of course, but a siege nonetheless.
Wonderstuck
THE important point about art, great art, is connection. Does it electrify, lift, intrigue, startle, harangue?
Claws for thought
WOMEN are vicious to each other in a way utterly different to a man’s brutality.
Our better selves
THE ability to see through another’s eyes is a highly evolved human trait; our most magnificent, perhaps.
Putting down roots
A PERSON’S attitude to a garden is like a door flying open into who they really are.
So near, so far
SUMMER holidays are an opportunity to take time to just stop, to unfurl a different self. Notice someone again. Maybe the person closest to you.
Vive la difference
THIS fun park involves lots of water with everyone wandering around in a swimming costume; unspeakably terrifying for women of a certain age.
Sweet memories
WE want kids to know the delights of our own sun-drenched childhoods.
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