Quotes from Kate Adie

I will never retire.

the less we fear that foreigners are going to kill us, the less we're interested in them'.

there is a war on and one must not grumble: quoting Sybil Harry in 1914

On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.

I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually.

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.

I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.'

If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!

I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.

I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.

I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job at the time.

It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.

Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.

I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.

I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.