The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.

There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.

There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I cant be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.

I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.

There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.

I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.

Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.

When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many.

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.

We cannot say no to temptation without saying yes to something far better.

It's true that the question of Iraq divided Europe.

Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?

Relax, ease back in your seats and let the music take you wherever it does.

Adversity is the true school of the mind.

I always feel like a woman designing for a woman. I know what you want to accentuate and what you want to hide.

Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.

A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.