Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a lush lifestyle makes a certain (albeit seedy) sense.

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.

It’s not about working for money, it’s about having money work for you.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

To have a good enemy, choose a friend: he knows where to strike.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.

I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

One doth but break-fast here, another dine; he that lives longest does but suppe; we must all goe to bed in another World.

If you disaggregate, things fall apart.

I want to be an integrated woman.