I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.

Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.

Because I've been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts.

I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.

Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.

I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.

It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.

There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.

I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up.

The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.

Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself.

Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much.

I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.

I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free.

My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.

All you need is a bad angle and suddenly you're 30 pounds overweight.

And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.

Anyone can look beautiful.

But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.

By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.

God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.

I am a very open person, and I'm always nervous of being misconstrued. Sitting in the middle of a restaurant makes me nervous. I feel like I'm being judged. And it's funny that I should feel that way.

I think 30 is a big jump from your 20s, but 40 holds no fear for me.

I think I'd be more relaxed as an older mum, although fundamentally life with a baby is pretty much the same whatever age you are. It's nappies, crying, feeding.

Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.

Love is just chemistry.

Teach your children everything that you're not, because they will pick up on everything that you are.

All you need is a bad angle and suddenly youre 30 pounds overweight.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

You have choices to make about what you do with the rest of your life.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.