I've got what my mother's got - however bloody you are feeling you can put on the most amazing show of happiness.

I desperately loved my husband and I wanted to share everything together, and I thought that we were a very good team.

Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation of reward or punishment, safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.

I love to hold people's hands when I visit hospitals, even though they are shocked because they haven't experienced anything like it before, but to me it is a normal thing to do.

I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that - and I found an affinity there.

I decline to go fox hunting.

A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.