I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.

In Britain, it's almost as if we're ashamed of having ambition and drive.

The trouble is that as women we try to take care of everybody else before we take care of ourselves.

I started off doing live TV, so I kind of learnt that if I get myself into trouble, I get myself out of it.

When I was not working, when our children were little, our life was all about our kids and our relationship. We didn't spend tons of time going off and spending time with friends and going on vacations alone.

Imaginary friends are one of the weirder forms of pretend play in childhood. But the research shows that imaginary friends actually help children understand the other people around them and imagine all the many ways that people could be.

In any solid, good relationship, it takes a while to trust someone.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.