My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.

In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.

A man is designed to walk three miles in the rain to phone for help when the car breaks down - and a woman is designed to say, 'you took your time' when he comes back dripping wet.

I wouldn't kidnap a man for sex - I'm not saying I couldn't use someone to oil the mower.

I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.

Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch television.

In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.