Life divides into amazing enjoyable times and appalling experiences that will make future amazing anecdotes.

You are educated equally to boys. You're expected to go into equal employment with boys. In a marriage, you are legally equal. So, you know, you cannot deny we live in a feminist world.

When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.

When you live in a small house with five younger siblings, it's actually far more sensible- and much quicker- to cry alone.

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’m neither ‘pro-women’ nor ‘anti-men’. I’m just ‘Thumbs up for the six billion

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.