When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.

When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?

It must be said that Brighton, unlike London, makes driving seem very appealing. Instead of glowering faces and angry horns on all sides, we have the coast road in front of us and the Sussex Downs just 10 minutes behind us.

Transsexualism is, basically, just another, more drastic twist on the male menopause.

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.