I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.

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.

When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

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

I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.

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