But nearly every woman I know has a roughly similar story - in fact, dozens of them: stories about being obsessed with a celebrity, work colleague or someone they vaguely knew for years; living in a parallel world in their head; conjuring up endless plots and scenarios for this thing that never actually happened.

I can only work between the hours of 8:30 and 4:30, because that's when the kids are at school. So I get to do all my work and have all of my fun in that time, which means just sitting on a chair, typing, alternately clicking between writing a column and being on Twitter, and smoking as many cigarettes as I can before my lungs give out.

We need to reclaim the word feminism. We need to reclaim the word feminism real bad.

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

Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.

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

Benedict Cumberbatch is very beautiful.