From Agatha Christie’s autobiography

An Autobiography was published posthumously in the U.K. and the U.S. in November 1977, almost two years after her death in January 1976. Below are some of her classic lines:

“You’ve got to hand it to Victorian women, they got their menfolk where they wanted them. They established their frailty, delicacy, sensibility – their constant need of being protected and cherished… All my grandmother’s friends seem to me in retrospect singularly resilient and almost invariably successful in getting their own way. They were tough, self-willed, and remarkably well read and well informed.”

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” 

"I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that."