“If I were to write a biography,” my mother once told me, “it would start like this: I was born in Brussels, Belgium, on May 4 1929… and I died six weeks later”. My mother felt that her life had been rather straightforward and therefore not worth much writing about. Her Victorian upbringing dictated that you never call attention to yourself. So she worked hard, she was a good mother, and she got on with the rest of it.”
Happy Birthday Audrey Hepburn (May 4, 1929)
