Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means.

You wanted to become a doctor to help people and feel better at the end of your job, I think, watching them, as the nurse takes my hand. But I don't think you do feel better at the end of the day. You look like humans have constantly disappointed you.

If you do it properly, life is art, really.

Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it.

One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.

I had given up on being beautiful. But I thought I could kind of inspire boys to write songs about me. So I became a music journalist at the age of 16.

As a former ballerina, I can't put down Maggie Shipstead's new book, Astonish Me.