I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.

I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.

I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.

My dream is to have a gay son.

In the past, I've thrown myself into work so much there's been very little room for anything else.

It is going to take a very brave man to love me.

When I go to one of those singles dating parties I believe myself to be a bowl of fruit. When I talk to potential dates, I judge them by the smile in their lips, their smoothness of speech, and the whiteness of teeth; then I offer them the appropriate fruit, which is usually a lemon.