Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.

Grass is growing on the Front Bench.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Drink promises you everything, but gives nothing.

Nobody wants me as a Cabinet Minister and they are perfectly right. I am an agitator, not an administrator.

We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know