“When I have to cry, I think about my love life. When I have to laugh, ...” — Glenda Jackson Quote

When I have to cry, I think about my love life. When I have to laugh, I think about my love life.

I told them I wouldn't sign a blank cheque.

My life was transformed by the Labour government of 1945. It was transformative for millions of people like me, you know - education, the health service. It was proof that politics can make life better for people; that a social dream can become a social reality by the power of government.

Everything I had been taught to regard as a vice - and I still regard them as vices - under Thatcherism was in fact a virtue: Greed, selfishness, no care for the weaker, sharp elbows, sharp knees.

I'm not a big 'cry on a shoulder' person. I'm very introverted when it comes to my own stuff.

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.

I've always been really hard on myself. If I didn't book a job, I would cry.

I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry too often.