I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money.

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.

Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that.

I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be.

There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.

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.