It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.

I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

The British have always made terrible parents.

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

My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.

I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.

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