Men are irrelevant.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Style is what’s there when you look at someone’s writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.

I was always furious because you couldn’t take out more than three books in one day. You would go home with your three books and read them and it would still be only five o’clock. The library didn’t shut till half past, but you couldn’t change the books till the next day.

Some women are born mothers, some women become mothers, and some have motherhood thrust upon them. I struggled against it all my life, but I think the truth is I was probably born to it. I don’t do badly, I don’t do well, I just do it.

Some of us are made fat and some of us are made thin, and that’s all there is to it.

If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain...

Women have always tried to make themselves attractive to men, and you’re not going to change a thing like that in a hurry. Look around you. All the women nicely groomed and attractive and good-looking, and the men no better than fat slugs, for the most part, or skinny runts. Unshaved and smelly as often as not. They get away with everything, men. They can do every disgusting thing they like and no one ever says a thing.