"I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?"

"Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise."

"It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England."

"The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps."

"Stand firm when justice demands it, even if you stand entirely alone."

"Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us."

"The harmony of the universe dictates that a single moment of clarity can change a lifetime."

"I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched."