The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.

I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter, and able to give people a clean drink of water. I don't want images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change. And if I want that, I had better do something about it.

We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.

It's such a cold night and it's the only time I've actively been grateful for menopause. I've been entirely comfortable.

I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.

When you buy Fairtrade products you can guarantee that the farmers who have worked hard to grow them get a minimum price. Fairtrade is a way of giving regular support - and enjoying delicious high quality foods at the same time.

I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.