I told my girls, 'Look at Rihanna: She's one of the biggest pop stars in the world. She's really famous, really powerful, really rich. Yet in every s….

My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it..

It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine..

Always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit. You’d….

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals o….

I have a rule for working out if the root problem of something is, in fact, sexism. And it is this: asking 'Are the boys doing it? Are the boys havin….

The world is difficult and we are all breakable. So just be kind..

Life divides into amazing enjoyable times and appalling experiences that will make future amazing anecdotes..

If you've been fat, you will always feel and see the world as a fat person; you know how difficult it is... It's the same coming from a working-class….

The problem with battling yourself is that even if you win, you lose..

All art is someone trying to tell you something..

I always give three pieces of advice to all the teenage girls when I do my talks: long country walks - it's important to get some fresh air in your l….

Women are feminist by default..

Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws..

Any action a woman engages in from a spirit of joy, and within a similarly safe and joyous environment, falls within the city-walls of feminism. A gi….

If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat..

Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends..

What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy and smug they….

I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy..

If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one..

Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means..