Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships.

If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people's lives, then if they fail in their duty, the only thing to prevent them failing in their duty is the fear that they would be put behind bars.

I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older you're not so interesting.

People's lives are in the care of the railways when they get on a train. The railways should remember that.

I would hate to live in the country, unless I was living on a farm.

I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.

I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there.