Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.

I spend hundreds of pounds a year on candles and it is such a waste of money. It is burning cash whatever way you look at it but I love them.

My business was born out of my frustration with other cashback schemes. I wanted a more curated service than the other sites offer.

I do not think anyone should feel pressured into doing it but I am the sucker who will stop on the street and sign up to direct debits.

I just do not understand the stock market. It is like reading Russian.

I now consider the money I put into my pension to have been a mistake.

I think it is outrageous - to lock people's money away and change the rules on them. So, on point of principle, I stopped putting money into my pension.

The most lucrative work I have done is presenting primetime TV shows. I do not know what other people earn but a six-figure salary is not uncommon.

There are times when I feel over-rewarded for what I do for a living, especially when I compare what I can earn to what my brother earns as a firefighter.

I never got into debt because my parents had drummed into me at a young age: if you can't afford it, you can't have it.

I have a fall-back fund for the quiet months. I am a single working parent and it gets lonely when things are insecure.

Her heart kicked hard against her ribs, seized by a terrible fear that refused to let go no matter how hard she pushed.

Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.

Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it.

Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an actress can't be a poet.

How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives.

My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.

Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.

Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.

all we have is our deep and abiding love for each other. We can't loose that or we loose ourselves. If we don't help each other, who will?

No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.