Bridget Jones has a lot to answer for.

I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck.

Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.

My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

If I were to say you are crazy, what part of that would you find unacceptable?

It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.

More or Less Love Poems #11:No babeWe'd neverSwing together butthe syncopationwould be something wild

Drink, drink! Bacchus is the enemy of Venus."From The Diary Of An Orange Tree

Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.

If something is making us bored, we should probably keep it shorter.

History,' Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. 'Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?' 'So hopefully we get smarter and don't make the same mistakes again.

Leadership is a choice one makes.

I really love having lots of down time with my kids.

Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul.

If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.