I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse.

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.

Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.

I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot.

I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

Priceless diamonds often shape in worthless dirt.

Is it possible not to ever know your type--not to even know you have a type--until quite suddenly you do?

Progressives should recognize common morality with religion.

I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.

I feel more confident if my makeup looks good.

God will always make a way where there is no way.

In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take on life.

A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.

I think I'm more prolific in the songwriting.

I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.