“After the children were weaned, they were returned to their families and were entrusted to a nanny who looked after their every need.”

“For the next four nights, I beseeched my dear old nanny to take me to gamble at the Sampheng fair, and it was astonishing how my luck held all that time.”

“Hansberry's mother, Nannie Perry, a schoolteacher and, later, ward committeewoman, was from Tennessee.”

“Nurse Nannie puttered about the room for some time, picking up things, and laying out the girls' clothes for the next day.”

“Here we are, Nannie, all safe and sound, and we caught the brownie.”

“So obviously it is better for the economy that women work and employ maids or nannies.”

“Once upon a time, nannies were the carers and the copers for middle-class families whose parents had opted out.”

“Never in the history of nannies has there been a more fly nanny than Julie Andrews.”