Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.

I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.

Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.

Some people find that if they share a profession with their partner, they don't talk about anything else.

I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the reason I didn't have kids.

My dad died when he was 60. I was only 17 and I think, psychologically, that had a huge impact on me, probably more than I realised.