I remember rocking the pram with one hand and typing with the other. - Anne Enright

There are so few people given us to love. I want to tell my daughters this, that each time you fall in love it is important, even at nineteen. Especially at nineteen. And if you can, at nineteen, count the people you love on one hand, you will not, at forty, have run out of fingers on the other. There are so few people given us to love and they all stick.

There was a great buzz and sometimes I felt like awarding myself purple hearts for the work I was doing.

It was lucky I was hanging around with theatre types who don't really have steady jobs.