Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

I feel that beauty and femininity are ageless

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.

The first effect marriage had on me was to increase my lack of interest in sex.... Actually our marriage was a sort of friendship with sexual privileges.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.