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

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

A lot of meetings are held to arrange when to have meetings. ... Meetings today are usually called conferences to make them sound more significant.

hurting other people is not excusable because you've been hurt yourself.

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

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.

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