dealing with loss and heartache doesn't make you stronger. It only makes people think you are.

Age to women is like Kryptonite to Superman.

If he wants breakfast in bed, tell him to sleep in the kitchen.

Good art is in the wallet of the beholder.

Why do men like intelligent women? Because opposites attract.

Age to women is what kryptonite is to Superman. Inside every older woman is a younger woman screaming, 'Get me the hell outta here.'

People who say that money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop.

My sisters and I miss our dad dreadfully. But grief, of course, is the price of love.

As a breastfeeding mother you are basically just meals on heels.

living with a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban a mum is not allowed to laugh, sing, dance or wear short skirts

Any woman who calls herself a post-feminist should keep her Wonderbra and burn her brains.

Why just work and live for a happy retirement? Why not work and live for a happy life?

The artists who stick around for a while are the ones who go, 'Oh, that's cool, never thought of that. Ought to do that.'

I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.

Fish farming, even with conventional techniques, changes fish within a few generations from an animal like a wild buffalo or a wildebeest to the equivalent of a domestic cow.

Because I'm from Manchester I'm always looking for a bit of blue sky wherever I can find it.

Love is the social equivalent of gravity.

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

I like to dress up and look nice. I'm not quite at the stage yet financially to do that too often, but it's nice to push the boat out a little bit for award ceremonies and stuff.

Follow your heart, but check it with your head.

Kansas is a piece of real estate that completely disproves the theory of roundness as a quality of the planet earth.