I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.

If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.

You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.

Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.

I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers.

Any woman who marries an Italian must accept the undeniable fact that she has also married his mother.

If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.