"I hope every woman out there who wants to be a mother and is suffering with infertility, will explore all the options and know that if you choose the science route, it is okay."

"A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you're not feeling very sexy."

"Being a mother is the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me in my life."

"I married the man of my dreams in 1998."

"Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water."

"I wasn't a woman who stayed tiny like I thought I would. I definitely gave myself the freedom to eat what I wanted."

"What I don't like is breakfast in the morning. I have a double-espresso cappuccino, but no food."

"When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly."