Sex, on the whole, was meant to be short, nasty and brutish. If what you want is cuddling, you should buy a puppy.

I won't be going to any New Year's Eve parties because I think they're naff. No one over the age of 15 should bother going to parties.

I almost choke on my popcorn when I hear film stars, who walk on red carpets as much as the rest of us do on zebra crossings, criticising youngsters who crave fame.

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

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

As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money.

The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps.