"To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and who…"

"is the only element, besides birds and human beings, which brings life and movement into the garden, while an expanse…"

"According to the type of terrain and the of the line, them may cost anything from twice to sixteen times that of s."

"The provision of adequate fast and pleasant traffic roads, could be combined with low speed-limits for by-roads. This…"

"My first choice must be that of the landscape architect Sylvia Crowe who published Garden Design in 1958. It remains …"

"I haven't any desire for success or the limelight, and no further wish to explain myself. Neither do I wish to play, …"

"I live alone to work ... My friends are very few now, but more quality. Friends, family and works of art are the only…"

"It's all there, the strangeness, colour, exhilaration."

"I've tried through the medium of paint to express ... how simple and wonderful living is ..."

"I have been able to devote my energies to what I really am, a woman painter. It is my life."