My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.

I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.

There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

But children can't be a center of life and a reason for being. They can be a thousand things that are delightful, interesting, satisfying, but they can't be a well-spring to live from. Or they shouldn't be.

I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.