Quotes from Rachel Johnson

'The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys.

I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.

When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.

I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.

English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'