Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement.

Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.

You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.

We're always bombarded with images from magazines of what looks cool and sexy.

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

I am British. I love Britain for all its faults and all its virtues. My husband is American and I am largely based in Los Angeles, but whenever someone asks me where home is, I automatically say 'London.'

I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.

I had a very realistic expectation of the level of success that it was possible to attain writing romance novels.