Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species-it is the tigress and lioness in you which tends to defend when attacked.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Life in a free society...is heaven on earth to life in a socialist society such as Russia.

People from my sort of background needed Grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.

Never flinch. Make up your own mind and do it.

No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease.

I think our support for the EEC has been very half-hearted. You really cannot join any group of nations and spend all your time criticising it. The EEC is free Europe getting together. Had we had some vision like that after the first world war , we might never had the second ... my son does not have to go and fight as his father had to fight. Surely that is the most valuable thing of all, the reason for keeping Europe together.