Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill.

Intersectionality may well sound like some unfortunate bowel complaint resulting in copious use of a colostomy bag, and indeed it does contain a large amount of ordure.

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

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.

Only those who haven't got the wit to speak for themselves would ever want their clothes to do it for them.

Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.