I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something.

Astrologys a moving system that depends on where youre looking at it from on Earth. My horoscope here in London would be completely different to down in New Zealand.

A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.

I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.

She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost

I have observed that male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel," she says. "In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are – about luck and identity and how the idea struck them. The interviews much more seldom engage with the woman as a serious thinker, a philosopher, as a person with preoccupations that are going to sustain them for their lifetime.

All men want their whores to be unhappy.