Elderly Hero of the Week: Diana Athill, British literary editor, novelist, and memoirist
"Any time anyone fell in love with me, it was very funny -- I used to instantly despise them. I felt like Groucho Marx saying he wouldn't want to join a club that would have him."
"I was lacking for most of my life in maternal instinct, but there was a short time when I got pregnant and wanted to have the baby. But I was amazed by how quickly I recovered from not having it. I was quite sad, but not unduly sad and I've thought about it very little since. I feel a little bit ashamed of that."
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