People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.

Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.

When today's young woman says she isn't a feminist what she means is she isn't a lesbian and she doesn't hate men, she likes to wear make-up and she enjoys a laugh. In which she is no different from many an early feminist.

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

If I am a prolific writer and turn my hand, with what seems to some as indecent haste, from novels to screenplays to stage and radio plays, it is because there is so much to be said, so few of us to say it, and time runs out.