Marguerite Patten

[on being a home economist] To many people today we have become a dying race, which is a pity because we are needed more than ever. Our role is to educate people, to help them in the home. In this recession we really need to sort ourselves out. Show less «

[on Fanny Cradock] She brought a sense of... gracious entertaining..., though I disapproved of her evening dress and spangles. I didn't like her as a person because she was a bully - we were judges together at the Festival of Britain [in 1951] and she massacred me in the meeting, but I would defend her ability to the end of my days. Show less «

To the day I die, I will be a home economist.