For 11 years they must have had intercourse but never complete[ly], but in the air raid, in the heat of the terror, I was created. - Miriam Margolyes

I was in my late twenties when I told my mother. [...] I spoke to her about an affair with a woman and three days later she had this stroke.

Nobody thinks they've had the career they deserve. And I want to be as important as Judi and Maggie and all the others, you know. And I think I'm bloody good — but nobody else agrees with me.

I now regret it because it caused the person I loved the most pain she could not bear. I should have been aware that to tell her was very wrong. It also hurts me that she was not then able to live to see my success.