The 'g' is silent - the only thing about her that is. |
The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact. |
What Mrs. Thatcher did for women was to demonstrate that if a woman had enough desire she could do what she wanted, do anything a man could do. . . . Mrs. Thatcher did not have one traditional feminine cell in her body. |
Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index. |
Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic. |
[But surely the tabloid papers are the forefront of the attack - aren't they're the voice of the Tory working class?] If you meet these boys from the tabloids, ... they're public schoolboys, like Kelvin MacKenzie. It doesn't matter what the paper is they're working for. |