It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.

If someone says something unpleasant, I can't say it doesn't smart a bit. It always does. Someone can take a really nasty swipe if they want because it kind of feels powerful for a person to write in a paper and get that thing out there.

I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe.

Anita Roddick was amazing. Her presence in a room was full of light, and everything she worked to achieve still resonates now.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.