My mother was a politician in my formative years.

Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.

King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.