A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.

Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.

Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.

The latest twist on the pampering concept is spa parties, where a group of friends take over an entire spa.

Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.

My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.

Make no mistake, most women are well aware that they've never had it so good; when they enter a spa or salon, it is purely a hair/nails thing, a prelude to an evening of guilt-free fun.

The shortest distance between two points is a time line, a schedule, a map of your time, the itinerary for the rest of your life.Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

The actual truth has never written about any war, and this will be no exception.

If you can't turn off your thoughts, who cares how soft your pillow is?"- David King

Selling a new lie is easy, but not so with un-teaching an old truth.

I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It's a pointless delay that wrecks my pace - and mood.

I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.

When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being.

To pray 'your kingdom come' at Jesus' bidding meant to align oneself with his kingdom movement.

If I didn't play international cricket, I would have joined the Army.

His lips nuzzled her ear. “Whether you go or stay, I will love you until I die,” he whispered.