Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.

If I could live my life all over I'd do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there's no way lord, to leave this love behind.