Being the only girl in the world who can say that her mother was Britain's first woman Prime Minister is honour enough for me.

Reality hasn't really intervened in my mother's life since the seventies.

Part of my dogsbody job during the 1983 election was choosing Mum's missile-proof clothes. They had to be disposable.

Dogs are more loyal. Cats are fickle.

Perhaps forgiveness wasn’t a singular event, but a progression, or better, a dance that took some figuring before you could perform the steps.

Fire and water, logic and reason—those footholds of reality that you mortals hold so near and dear become like so much mist on the plains of the dreamscape.

If your eyes can not cry, then your gut will."The head and heart may be in denial of your human needs, but the gut will always carry the wisdom of your needs met and unmet, and thusly respond.

I hope, ” he replies softly, “to get to know you again. If you are open to it. There is a fog around you that I would like to clear away.

Only when men are connected to large universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.

The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest.

I'm not at all stuck up . . . although judging from those around me I have every right to be.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

I don't care so much about form. Perhaps I did in the beginning, a long time ago. But now I just want to be as straight and simple and as true as possible.

A friend of mine gave me a very good piece of advice, which is if you don't think your kids are going to want it, don't take it.