The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too.

Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what's more, they weren't expected to.

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.

When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.

I have never done a package tour in my life. It appeals in a way, but then I remind myself that you can't control the other people with you, which could turn out to be ghastly.

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.