When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.

A lot of writing about being a mother is not so much writing about the kids themselves. They become placeholders for the shift that happens when you're suddenly in charge of other people.

Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness

It was - it's always very nice to be somebody rather grand.

The drama school was in Oxford - and it's funny to think of it, but in those days when I started out the University was nearly all male. And they certainly weren't mixed.

Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class.

I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.