I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way.

My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

My mother was someone that walked into a room and lit it up. She made friends easily and she communicated her enthusiasms with great joy. I always wanted to be more like my mother than I am. I loved and admired her very deeply.

And she [Margaret Thatcher] also had a sort of a way, like a railroad train, of going, taking a breath and starting quite quietly and making a point in a way that you don't really know that this point is going to be made through several examples, and there will be not be a break in the speaking voice at any point.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

Every easy choice will have its consequence tomorrow.