It seems that one moment I was this little kid only caring about animals and flowers and stuff, and then the next minute I was this raging stew of hormones. I don't know if you've ever been a raging stew of anything, but I wouldn't particularly recommend it.

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

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

Having 'best friends' is - at least for me - as outdated and small-minded a concept as the idea of 'Sunday best clothes.'

When I started at the Guardian, though, I couldnt think of anything we saw eye to eye on, except feminism, and even this would soon be arguable as Guardian writers queued up to drool over Eminem.

Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.

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