There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

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

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.

One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.

When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas about the native.' They are saying in effect, 'Learn our ideas, or otherwise get out; we don't want you.'

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.