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Jilly Cooper Quotes

1937–2025 England

Dame Jilly Cooper, DBE (née Sallitt, 21 February 1937 – 5 October 2025), was an English novelist and journalist. She was formerly employed by The Sunday Times Magazine (1969–1982) and The Mail on Sunday (1982–1987) and, before turning to romantic fiction, Cooper wrote works of non-fiction.

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The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.

[In her novel, Score, a male character is murdered while sexually aroused.] I rang Stroud police to ask whether the male member stays up at the point of death. They told me it definitely does.

I'm quite depressed about sex at the moment [...] I don't think people are having nearly so much fun. And everywhere you go, people are marrying their own sex, aren't they?

This woke thing is awful. Have you ever been woked? You put a hand on somebody's shoulder and you're assaulting them. In the old days if someone was awful to you you'd tell them to eff off and that would be that. Still, I had some horrors in my time.

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