“And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand...” — Helen Rowland Quote

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.

The writers who inspire me most are all women: Enid Blyton, Agatha Christie, Margaret Mitchell and Emily and Charlotte Bronte. As for contemporary novels, one of my favourites is 'Everyone Brave is Forgiven' by Chris Cleave. It's the sort of book to read if you've fallen out of love with reading - it reminds you just how brilliant novels can be.

Part of the problem with the discovery of the so-called breast-cancer genes was that physicians wrongly told women that had the genetic changes associated with the genes that they had a 99% chance of getting breast cancer. Turns out all women that have these genetic changes don't get breast cancer.

I can honestly say that I understand women very well. If you understand yourself, you understand women, because, in the end, all women are the same.

I don't have a horror story to share like the ones we have heard from so many women in the #MeToo movement... But when you really listen to women, you begin to understand the million little ways in which all women are made less and denied the opportunity to contribute to their communities and their country.