Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.

I suppose, I said, it is one definition of love, the belief in something that only the two of you can see.

I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.

Modern morality is all about perception.

I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.

It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves, how enthusiasticall y they drive you to your own destruction.

If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse.