I Don't Like The Word 'strong,' Because

There's A Scary Moment When You Realise You're No Longer The Youngest Person In The Room. Especially If You've Been A Successful Young Person. That's Followed, Of Course, By The Realisation That You're Actually The Oldest Person In The Room.

What I Feel Personally And What I Can Act Are Two Different Things. Maybe One Of The Great Pleasures Of My Job Is Being Able To Inhabit Worlds That You Are Never Going To Inhabit Personally.

I Feel The Written Word, Poetry And Literature Is Just One Of The Most Beautiful Things That Human Beings Do. So We Have To Fight For It.

It Has Nothing To Do With Clothing Or Makeup. Just Put Your Shoulders Back And Chin Up, And Face The World With Pride.

It Was Not My Destiny, I Kept Thinking It Would Be, Waiting For It To Happen, But It Never Did, And I Didn't Care What People Thought ... It Was Only Boring Old Men Who Would Ask Me. And Whenever They Went, 'what? No Children? Well, You'd Better Get On With It, Old Girl,' I'd Say 'no! F*** Off!'