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

September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.

...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use for work, that they might be different creatures.

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

I find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it is hardly even noticed.