Barbara Cartland
Barbara Cartland
Dame Barbara Cartland, DBE, CStJ, born Mary Barbara Hamilton, was an English author of romance novels, who was one of the best-selling authors as well as one of the most prolific and commercially successful of the twentieth century. Her 723 novels were translated into 38 different languages, and she continues to be referenced in the Guinness World Records for the most novels published in a single year in 1976. As Barbara Cartland she is known for her numerous romantic novels,...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 July 1901
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.
A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.
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.
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.
The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.
Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.
Good must triumph over evil. It usually does in life and in any case it's bad for young people to believe it doesn't.
People don't roll around naked in my books. I do allow them to go to bed if they're married, but it's all very wonderful and the moon beams.
Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes for it and when she is old she remembers it.
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.
Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
I always wear boot polish on my eyelashes, because I am a very emotional person and it doesn't run when I cry.