What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.

I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been.

I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody else, if these talents were not regarded as commodities with a value in the success-stakes.

I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.

I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.