It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens.

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.

I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift.

I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained.

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.