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" During my childhood, I felt older than my years because I felt responsible for my brothers and sisters. "
Years
Childhood
Older
" I didn't have boyfriends until my late teens. I was at a girls' boarding school, and my stepfather disapproved of me going out with anybody. I never really came across any boys. When I did, one of them asked me out, and I was petrified. I felt like a fish out of water, and it was excruciating. "
Me
Fish
Never
" I do have a right to talk about my life, to tell my truth from my perspective. "
My Life
Perspective
Talk
" I had never been allowed to go on tour with my husband George Harrison, so had no idea what to expect when I left him to join Eric Clapton on his 1974 U.S. tour. "
Go
Left
Expect
" I have led an exceptional life in some ways, yes. I mean, I've been very lucky. I seem to have had a gift for landing in the right place at the right time. "
Yes
Life
Place
" I loved everything that went with rock n' roll. I loved being at the heart of such creativity and being young in such a stimulating and exciting era. "
Creativity
Young
Rock
" I love life. There's so much to learn and see all the time, and nothing nicer for me than to wake up, and the sky is blue. "
Wake Up
Sky
Love
" I'm blessed with the fact that I'm a fighter. I've always known life was meant to be joyful. "
Life
Fighter
Blessed
" I'm one of these people who couldn't imagine the future. The future never occurred to me. I just loved life every day. "
Future
Me
Day
" I think I lost my sense of identity when I was married. I know I did. And it took me a very long time to regain it and find out who I was. "
Think
Identity
Know
" I think men are mainly unfaithful because as they get older, they feel the urge to prove to themselves that they are still attractive. They need proof from outside the marriage. It's really sad. It's all about them. It's not about their wives at all. "
Sad
Need
Men
" I think modelling is a very difficult thing. It's glamorous and fun, but underneath it all, you know your flaws, and those are what you focus on. "
Focus
Know
Flaws
" I think there's a path cut for us, a destination mapped out. Everyone ends up where they're meant to be, and how they got there doesn't really matter. "
Think
Destination
Meant To Be
" It's such a joy to be able to have friendships free from worry. It's so lovely to live without fear. "
Joy
Free
Worry
" It was great fun to hang around the Beatles. They had amazingly fast minds, and they were incredibly amusing and funny and witty. They were great. There was a very high energy surrounding them. "
Fast
Minds
Energy
" It wasn't until I realised that I could actually take nice photographs that I started to become passionate about it. I then got a few jobs working for magazines in London, and I would get terribly excited and intense about doing a job and taking photographs and looking through the lens to capture something amazing. "
Lens
Nice
Looking
" I've been avoiding journalists my whole life. "
Avoiding
Whole
Life
" I was a firm believer that if you get married, then that should be it. But it's sadly not always the case; sometimes people can't remain together for whatever reason. "
You
Together
Sometimes
" I wasn't really terribly familiar with the Beatles when I met George. They were just emerging. They certainly weren't as big as they became later on. I just knew them as a pop group, and that's all. I was keener on George as a man and a person, as opposed to someone in a band. "
Group
Person
Someone
" Men find it more difficult than women to be alone. They function better with someone in their lives. Being married, they are rooted, so they feel safe to go and do what they want to do. "
Feel
Better
Alone
" Once I've taken photographs, I look at them, and I get into them, and I'm there for the moment - and then that's it. I find little time for reflection. "
Moment
Reflection
Find
" One grows up thinking you will naturally be able to have children, and when it doesn't happen, it's a shock. But I just feel that it wasn't meant to be. "
Feel
Children
Thinking
" People blame the 1960s for just about everything these days, but it was the decade when all that post-war furtiveness and small-mindedness was finally blown open, and opportunity really came knocking. "
People
Opportunity
Everything
" People say it's cathartic to write a book, but it turned out to be quite painful! "
People Say
Say
Book
" When you're married to somebody iconic, people tend to notice him. "
People
You
Tend
" Women hang onto the romanticism of a relationship. But a man compartmentalises it into the past and then gets on with his new life. "
Past
Women
Relationship
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