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.

You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.

I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.

There is a whole generation of women and it was as if their lives came to a stop when they had children. Most of them got pretty neurotic - because, I think, of the contrast between what they were taught at school they were capable of being and what actually happened to them.

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.

You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.