Pam Ferris

Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.

I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.

I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the reason I didn't have kids.

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.