Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I'd named it after myself.

I like my men to be manly, as you'll see from my books.

I want to retire very early, by the time I am 40, and go to live in Italy.

'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.'

Abuse directed at women is always sexual or violent.

The nature of the internet is that you don't know who is behind the screen.

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House.

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.

Of course women can have it all - if they want it all. I won't hear any defeatist talk. If you just dwell on problems, you won't get anywhere fast.

If you are brave, you will open the book and read it.

Your feelings are your signals of deep truths inside of you. They're the language of your soul, and they need you to listen to them.

Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.

I like to play dress up, I'm in love with fashion.

The kundalini energy rests in potential at the base of the spine. It is possible to take that energy and allow it to move, to unleash it, from the base of the spine up to the third eye.

The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do.

Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.

When you make a movie, you're spending a month of your life with someone and, down the line, you have to spend more months with them. It is this mini-marriage that you have.

They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.

People who care nothing about money probably exist or we wouldn't hear so much about them. But I've never encountered one in the flesh.