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 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.

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 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.

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

When bad things happen to you, become wiser, not bitter.

I'm not a philanthropist. While I care about the poor, the issue of local or global poverty doesn't keep me up at night.

There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.

Either push your limits or die.

The Placer is an enemy who must necessarily become our lord or our slave; one doesn't enjoy if it's not defeated.

Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.

To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand what it means.

The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

As a woman, I have no country