Barbara Taylor Bradford: Modern women take 'slightest compliment' as harassment Taylor Bradford, whose novel A Woman of Substance has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, added she now believed men ought to work at relationships too. "I used to think it was true what Mummy said - "a woman makes a marriage work" - but now I think the man has to put something into it, too," she told the magazine. "When my 31- year-old goddaughter has problems with her husband I tell her, "Keep your mouth shut and do your own thing."" She added she thought "men and women are wired differently," adding she still gets jealous of women who are "a bit predatory" around her husband. Saying women can be "a bit devious, especially if you're successful," she also criticised popular trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey as "terribly written, repetitive and not even sexy." Taylor Bradford, who has written nearly 30 novels, is now appearing in ITV's Secrets from the Workhouse, where she examines her own family history.