You don't have to be in love all the time, but you need to be surrounded by people you have a genuine connection with.
It is extremely frustrating if you are in your 20s and you want to embark on having a family and you're struggling to meet people.
I wish I could be as commanding as Meryl Streep.
I always urge women to aim for the highest job they can get because you get more money and you get more support and you get more control, and those are the three things that actually make life easier.
Managers have to demand more of their HR departments, and they have to demand more of themselves. And we all have to be open to hiring people that don't look like us and that don't sound like us, and not find that threatening.
We can't pretend that a Facebook friend is the same as a real friend you've shared times with together, both good times and difficult times.
I was 36 when I had my first son, Thomas, and 39 when I had Hugo, my second.
I have never had an unsupportive female boss. I've had several female bosses. They've all been super supportive.
When you have a lot of communication online before you go out with someone, it builds up a false sense of who the person is. There's a tendency to fill in the blanks with positive information.
It's very easy to imagine someone online in a positive way, but it's only when you sit down, with all five senses in play, that you can really tell, 'Do I find this person attractive?'
I love 'Cosmo,' but I gave it everything I had.
Obsessing about my image - that's not my shtick.
I clean out the cat tray like everyone else.
I have a real challenge of finding dog-walking shoes.
I like to use exercise classes as a way of understanding what people are doing. I'm promiscuous in terms of exercise. You see what people are wearing. You see what people are responding to. You see what the music is they're listening to. An exercise class is social anthropology: what clothes people are wearing, what are the new sneakers.
When I was growing up, Sunday lunch was my favorite time as a child. We would have a big Sunday English meal, and we would argue about things.
I am deeply unsentimental.
Maybe we need to shelter ourselves so we see the beautiful.
'Marie Claire' is one of those magazines that doesn't feel as well known as it should be.
On paper, swearing takes on a different attitude. It can make you sound very angry when you use it a lot.
