I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.

If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.

As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.

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.

It was the Spice Girls who messed it all up. And obviously, the appropriating of the phrase "girl power", which at that point overrode any notion of feminism, and which was a phrase that meant absolutely nothing apart from being friends with your girlfriends.

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

I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, we’ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain, and lifelong, grinding poverty show us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we’ve made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.