I wasn't trying to be a role model for anybody. I don't think that you can.

If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '

I don't take myself as seriously as some people think, and I'd hate anyone to think I was preaching. That's the last thing I want.

You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.

I'm not living my life under the spotlight for anybody.

I stand on the shoulders of giants that have gone before me, in terms of affording people like myself, women, the access to democracy, the vote, medical treatment, education, everything that I've been given. It's all been earned. Therefore I feel it's incumbent on me personally to just contribute something, to add to a collective voice that needs to be here right now, to build it up to a tipping point, to make the world aware that women's rights still have to be addressed and that the word 'feminism' has been devalued and needs to be reclaimed.

The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.