I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion.

Always carry a book on a date so that when you get bored you can slip into the Ladies for a read.

If I was just normally intelligent, I could probably get away with it - but I'm fiercely intelligent and that's threatening.

My weakness is dark chocolate. I carry little tins of it in my purse.

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.

I want to feel all my feelings, to have every feeling a person can have and never not feel it.