Quotes from Kate Garraway

I can cope with politicians now I've had about 40,000 cockroaches tipped over my head. Westminster's going to be no problem.

I think that political coverage generally comes in on a level that means if you live and breathe Westminster detail and diary, then you get it.

Some of the most productive people in history have been self-confessed 'muck-middens,' as my husband would say: Agatha Christie, Benjamin Franklin and even Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, to name a few.

In some ways it's hard not to be a bit cynical when a friend tells you about their fantastic new diet, because there's a fresh eating fad in the press every day.

I think a lot of the political programmes have decided that most people aren't interested in politics, so they broadcast only for people who are.

Women should do what makes them feel good.

After my first marriage ended in 2002 I went out with someone who made me feel very sexy. He was ten years younger than me and full of the joy of youth, which was wonderful after all the sadness of divorce, and a great confidence boost.

Midlife is a time of explosive change, particularly for women. It's just like experiencing another puberty. The changes that take place in your body are enormous and, like puberty, you have to throw off the past.

A friend puts body moisturiser on every day because it makes her feel desirable. I have started doing it, too, and it really works.

Wallace and Gromit's Children's Charity does a fantastic job, raising funds to improve the lives of sick children in hospitals and hospices throughout the U.K.

There are lots of scary things about getting older, but one of the biggest, I guess, is death itself. Especially in midlife, when we suddenly wake up to the fact we may have fewer years left than we have already lived.

I used to be the sort of person that would go out for lunch with girlfriends and get home at 3 A.M.

I think holidays come in all sizes - sometimes you just need to relax.

My rational mind knows I am blessed. So many women - some of whom I've interviewed over the years - endure infertility and childlessness.

I realise, of course, that my cluttered existence is deeply unfashionable.

The more I go to Australia, the more I realise how enormous the country is and how much there is to see. There's really nowhere like it.

I thought, 'I don't really drink that much.' But when you stop completely it is a shocker. You realise that a glass here, going to a function there, they all tot up.

My worst habit is my untidiness. It bewilders my family, the degree to which I can create absolute chaos around me.

When you're juggling children, a marriage and a couple of jobs, something has to give - and, for me, it's living in a perfectly tidy home.

Nobody loves a baby more than me and I would happily have had about 10 of them.

Well we have a tiny garden, it's like a postage stamp, so generally we try to get out to the parks in London as much as possible.

I loved having children and started relatively late.

You can't beat a British holiday for rock pooling and sandcastles with fish and chips on the seafront - perfect.

My closet contains plenty of clothes I don't wear any more, a few I've never worn and one or two items I still struggle to believe I ever bought in the first place.