In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter.
I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.
But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.
Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.
After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it.
I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.
I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.
The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.
Structurally I don't see a fundamental difference between what we may reasonably expect of police and doctors - though obviously the fact that doctors are generally pursuing life-saving activities and police may be engaged in life-threatening activities may lead to differences in how we construe the moral limits to their roles.
They say that this country is free, and they say that this country is equal, but it is not equal if it's 'sometimes'. . . We need change now. We demand actions now.
People who tend not to report illness are people who are highly competitive and do not want to admit they are not coping.