Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.

I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.

Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.

Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity.

It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing.

Being in one's 50s is a powerful time.