I tried the Atkins diet in the Seventies when pregnant with my son, as I didn't want to pile on the pounds. Now, so long as I'm healthy, I don't care what my scales say.

The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find.

I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat.

I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned.

I'm very organised these days, and I keep my life in my handbag, like most women.

I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be.

I met Peter Sellers when I was 21 and we got married ten days later. He was not right mentally, but I hung in there for four years before I left.

I spend hours mowing the lawn in absolutely straight lines on my tractor. If it's not right, I do it again.

I am good at down grading - I have found I can live the same lifestyle in a two-bedroom apartment as in a five-bedroom house.

I used to collect vintage clothing - exquisite lace dresses, embroidered shawls and ornate jewelry - but that's just not me any more.

I say I don't sleep with married men, but what I mean is that I don't sleep with happily married men.

If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.

Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical

Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world.

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.

God Almighty, your ruined, and you didn't even eat the gingerbread.

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.

Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.

My friend asked me the essence of life and I smiled.

My first solo was in church when I was five.

I remember when I was a private soldier. I remember the days when I was taken care of and when I was not taken care of.