Women need chocolate. It's a scientific fact.

I am not a label snob and have learned that the thrill of shopping can be just as great, if not more so, when you find a bargain.

Sometimes, when I can't get to sleep, I imagine all the rules I'd invent if I ever got to be in charge of the world.

Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone’s advice, then bother to listen to it.

For years now I've kind of operated under an informal shopping cycle. A bit like a farmer's crop rotation system. Except, instead of wheat, maize, barley, and fallow, mine pretty much goes clothes, makeup shoes, and clothes (I don't bother with fallow). Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.

I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore.

My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them.