I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?

A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.

Presley sounded like Jayne Mansfield looked - blowsy and loud and low.

I have always voted Labour and I always will. I have got to have one stupid, bovine part of me and that's the part that votes Labour.

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.

But just think what a boring, bread-and-milk world this would be without the boastful.

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