I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

I think I was a feminist before the word was invented. By the time I came across feminist books by American or European writers, I realised that there was an articulate way or a language to express all these feelings that I had had for years and years and so I became a raging feminist as a young woman.

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.