"When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?"

"As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money."

"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."

"As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women."

"Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment."

"When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat."

"It is a profound truth that in the arithmetic of human affection, the more you give, the more you retain — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds."