Still living and partly living with TS Eliot

Murder in the Cathedral, by TS Eliot, performed at Southwark cathedral, London, in 2019. ‘The fact that I still continue to quote Eliot is testament to the impact of his poetry,’ writes Jean Jackson. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian

Some years ago, when our GP asked how I was, I confounded her by replying, without thinking, “Living and partly living” – the chorus of the women in TS Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral (Editorial, 11 April). Other parts of it are so relevant today. The fact that I still continue to quote Eliot is testament to the impact of his poetry on a young girl in school in the 1950s in Northumberland.
Jean Jackson
Seer Green, Buckinghamshire

• I worked for a local authority policy team during the last Labour government. One day someone answered a phone and then called out: “Who’s responsible for teenage pregnancies?” You can imagine the replies he got (Letters, 12 April).
Alison Richards
Dunbar, East Lothian