“I remember one day, when things were going frightfully well, I went to...” — Mary Quant Quote

“I remember one day, when things were going frightfully well, I went to buy myself a really smashing car. I asked them to show me a Porsche with an automatic gearbox, and the salesman called over all the other salesmen, and they stood around absolutely roaring with laughter.”

“My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning.”

“I have been on a diet since 1962.”

“I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in the future.”

“About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories to tell, so I thought, 'Let's do this!' So I'm co-writing a screenplay now with another screenwriter and loving it. Absolutely loving it. And I would like to be the producer on the project and of course the lead is me.”

“AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.”