Pro-choice is the only way to be-- because women are human beings, after all, and should be treated as such.

I love root vegetables: carrots, parsnips, and turnips.

When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall.

Forget the cheap white wine: go to beef and gin!

I love to teach - that's my role.

You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made. Even after you eat it, it stays with you - always.

I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you “sir” and “madam,” and so on. But after a week there, I began to feel wild. It was those ruddy English faces, so held in by duty, the sense of “what is done” and “what is not done,” and always swigging tea and chirping, that made me want to scream like a hyena