53 Quotes by Kate Adie

I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.

Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.

There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job at the time.

I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.

On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.

Only the Brits do this; as for the military from the rest of Europe and NATO - you could die in front of them and they would take no notice.

I worked in Bosnia, where 77 journalists were killed and 400 wounded, and at the BBC we have just lost a news producer in Africa.