The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.

Well, I woke up one morning around Christmas, went as far as the shops, and when I got to the corner I felt this violent pain in me left leg. I mentioned it to my daughter and she took me instantly to the hospital. It turned out it was vasculitis. In other words, you can have your leg off.

no one had experiences any more, only traumas.

I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.