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If life has taught me anything it's that while most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

Ruth Rendell

And some things that apply to women don't apply to me. Some women say as they get older they're no longer noticed: they disappear. Men, for instance, don't see them. Nobody wants them. That doesn't happen to me because of who I am. Not because I'm any more scintillating company, but because I'm Ruth Rendell.

Ruth Rendell

I think about death every day. What it would be like, and why it would happen to me. I think we ought to think about it. I suppose that what I really think is that it would be humiliating to be afraid of it.

Ruth Rendell