If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.

If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys.

Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.

I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women don't have to hold down office jobs and instead get in a total snit about who won the longest carrot contest or took first prize for summer chutney in the August fete.