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 … - Julie Burchill

I got through the sexual side of my first marriage - for six years! - by pretending that my husband was my friend Peter York.

A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be with and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.

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.