I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.

I've always maintained that there is a very fine line between a daring, sexy older woman and mutton dressed as lamb.

I don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40 so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.

My mother use to call me 'Miss Perpetual Motion' because I rarely keep still.

I have a lot of male friends that I go the cinema with and movie and shopping. A lot of men friends I know love shopping.

I mean, I'm a war baby, and we had rationing, and we didn't have sugar and sweets, which is very good for you in actual fact. Because when we had a piece of fruit, we'd gulp it down. It was just great.

I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.