The world you’re about to enter will be a different sea, with so much to do with how many likes you get on Facebook or who knows what ; where everyone is showing off rather than sharing their sadnesses and fears and what they really feel;.

There are so many images pushed at women and so many ideas of what you’re supposed to be. I think there’s too much of this superwoman, this woman with a bottom like two billiard balls. There’s no real celebration of just being a person.

Get out. You’ve had the warning sign, he votes Tory. Now get out before you get too involved.

She’s a jellyfisher: You have a conversation with her that seems all nice and friendly, then you suddenly feel like you’ve been stung and you don’t know where it came from.

Singletons should not have to explain themselves all the time but should have an accepted status – like geisha girls do.

You only get one life. I’ve just made a decision to change things a bit and spend what’s left of mine looking after me for a change.

I think that when you’re writing fiction what you’re doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don’t normally like to admit to.

Everything’s just so good now, because, as Dad says, ‘It’s coming from the inside, not the outside.

I realize it has become too easy to find a diet to fit in with whatever you happen to feel like eating and that diets are not there to be picked and mixed but picked and stuck to, which is exactly what I shall begin to do once I’ve eaten this chocolate croissant.

Nobody wants to be racist and I think that most people aren’t.