To be well in your mind you have first to be free.

This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married.

Is it my fault if I do not look like an English girl and I do not talk like a Nigerian? Well, who says an English girl must have skin as pale as the clouds that float across her summers? Who says a Nigerian girl must speak in fallen English...?

WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.

The future looks like gasoline. . . . crude oil . . . is the future before it has been refined. It is like a dream of the future, really, and like any dream it ends with a rude awakening.

My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.

That is the trouble with happiness-all of it is built on top of something that men want.