There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.

I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.

The male - I have found - is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

I think we ought to have a kindness year, or a kindness century.

Meetings ... are rather like cocktail parties. You don't want to go, but you're cross not to be asked.

The letter of application ... should be a masterpiece of fiction, papering over all the cracks. Get it properly typed on decent writing paper. Never let it run over the page, people get bored with reading.

I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.