I can't expect people to decide that they will change with me, so I can see why I'm on the old side.

The Summer Book is beautiful and warm, with the kind of wisdom we can adapt to our everyday lives.

Yeah, unfortunately [ films like Miss Julie are a dying breed]. And that is sad, because we need these. Like we need books, we need classical music, we need ballet, we need opera, to remind us really of who we are and why we are, and we need in movie houses - even to be in a movie - where you sit and see not only excitement and man-hero, woman-hero, you need quietly, just like that Hawking movie we talked about, to know how people overcome.

The age, you know. A man can be wiser and wiser, and a woman is older and older.

I'm maybe not so much an exception, maybe because I've lived so long that more is coming, more is there.

I think of all the choices I never knew. And those I let be made for me - to please, from fear, for love. Where did they disappear to, those choices that I never made? They are all part of who I am. They are the legacy I leave behind, they are the finished portrait of myself I cannot change.

If only we could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex.