I Think A Lot Of

What Other Grown-up Gets Told How To Do Their Job So Often As A Writer?

I Have Absolutely No Concept Of Work, Except For University. But I Like To Talk To People A Lot About Their Jobs.

I Was Aware, In Those Early Days Of Motherhood, That My Behaviour Was Strange To The People Who Knew Me Well. It Was As Though I Had Been Brainwashed, Taken Over By A Cult Religion. And Yet This Cult, Motherhood, Was Not A Place Where I Could Actually Live. Like Any Cult, It Demanded A Complete Surrender Of Identity To Belong To It.

The British Have Always Made Terrible Parents.

I Remain Fascinated By Where You Go As A Woman Once You Are A Mother, And If You Ever Come Back.