When you say you're not a feminist, if feminism hadn't existed, and you didn't live in a feminist world, you wouldn't be saying that, because you'd be too busy scrubbing out the toilets in back while cooking up your husband's tea and dying in childbirth at the age of 34.

In the end I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.

I told my girls, 'Look at Rihanna: She's one of the biggest pop stars in the world. She's really famous, really powerful, really rich. Yet in every single video she can only wear panties. Poor Rhianna! We'll know when she is properly powerful and successful when we see her in a lovely cardigan.'

There are some women out there who are just going to look better with a mustache: that's statistics.

I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It's more of a rock n' roll thing.

I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.

And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.