I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.
I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.
My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.
I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.
My mother was a politician in my formative years.
Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.