Let's all go and be feminists in the pub.

I am pathetically law-abiding.

The word barren tells you everything you need to know...The word spinster tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry... Imagine if you saw George Clooney on the cover of a magazine every week with, is George broody? Is George going to adopt a baby? When is George going to have another kid? It would just seem weird. We'd seem demented, yet it's totally valid for women.

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold, rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen, instead.

I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.

I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.

I wish I could give up smoking, but it does taste so delicious.