Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love.

Not that Dr Watson wasn't benign - he was one of the best souls in the Empire - but a man didn't get to be her uncle's right-hand man without a good uppercut and the stamina of a draft horse.

It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith.

I don't want other people to decide what I am. I want to decide that for myself.

I've always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can't do it any other way.

If you want to run for Prime Minister, you can. If you don’t, that’s wonderful, too. Shave your armpits, don’t shave them, wear flats one day, heels the next. These things are so irrelevant and surface to what it is all really about, and I wish people wouldn’t get caught up in that. We want to empower women to do exactly what they want, to be true to themselves, to have the opportunities to develop.