My life really began when I married my husband.

My life began with Ronnie.

Over the following days and weeks I would come to see, with mounting weariness, that this was to be the pattern of my life from now on: marginal and grim; my habitual daydreams and memories of our life as a couple reduced to nothing, to stuttering salvoes, by the gunpowder of the simple physical truth of my husband's absence.

I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.

As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.

My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.