A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

My mother was the fourth generation of women to have worked with the Walker company. As a little girl, I would go to her office while she worked. She was a very capable woman.

A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

It's very hard to be a kid, especially in a predominantly white school or white town where other people want to police your body and hair.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

I'm too vain to go on TV. I'd be a monster of self-consciousness. Plus, I've got a ridiculous voice - I sound like a camp friend of Bertie Wooster's.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

I don't have prejudices against anybody. I have opinions, based on a lifetime's experience.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Have you noticed that almost all the change in the world goes to women? When was the last time you had a five pence piece? Exactly. In a Christmas pudding. All the rest of it is in women's handbags.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

To a British politician, a police officer is as invisible as the railings.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

The more there is on offer, the more you don't want. Fifty options of cereal does not hone an epicurean expertise in the finer points of puffed rice, it murders appetite.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

The London police have discovered that the best way to neuter demonstrations is not to move everyone on, or disperse troublemakers, but hold them close, cordon them into a diminishing space for hours and hours, as a sort of arbitrary al fresco arrest.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

My only piece of advice is that all of you consider every single text and Snapchat that you ever make as also being shared with your partner, because they all check your phones all the time - trust me on this one.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

People who don't believe in God are no happier than people who do, and those who do believe are no nicer than those who don't.