When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?

My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in.

Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London.

I always seemed to fall in love with policemen.

I love men's company, but I don't feel I have to be married. Men are a wonderful part of life, like chocolate. But my life goes on whether they're there or not.

I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'

I was young; I was newly married. My Cambridge degree was still warm in my pocket - a roll of parchment guaranteeing me, I thought, a sort of free ambassadorial passage to any campus of my choosing, and I had chosen Sydney - the world was all before me.

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