I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.

I'm glad I was never an heiress.

Ninety-seven is my lucky number.

I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.

I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. marie antoinette

[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.

My mother was a politician in my formative years.