Well, it just gets worse and worse doesn't it? Collapsing banks, collapsing countries, massive government cuts, rising debt, inflation and the possibility of a double dip. It's amid all this uncertainty that the already embattled modern woman needs the best advice she can get about how to be as cool and calm in life as possible.

Keep Calm for Ladies offers the same pearls of life wisdom, inspirational quotes, proverbs and mantras as Keep Calm and Carry On but with women at their wits' end in mind. An emergency pocket survival bible for today's plucky female.

'Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got' Janis Joplin

'A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman' Marlene Dietrich

'Remember, blood is not only much thicker than water, it's much more difficult to get out of the carpet' Phyllis Diller

'In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman' Margaret Thatcher

'Never eat more than you can lift' Miss Piggy