At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.

People who can write a book usually do.

Without doubt, keep a diary. From the day you're born, keep a diary, because we all forget things so quickly.

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

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

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

The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably comes from banging their heads on low beams leaping to their feet whenever a woman comes into the room. Aristocrats are also deeply male chauvinist, and ... on the whole they tend to be reactionary.