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" Women, at 50, are on a plateau with their careers, but later they ascend. "

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" I've been making bronze sculptures for a long time. My sculptures are wholly unsuccessful and uncommercial. No one is even the remotest bit interested in them. So it's almost like my hobby. "

" My work rarely comes up in secondary market, so it means that my prices stay low. "

" There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true. "

" I'd like to think I inspire young people to be creative. "

" All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever. "

" I'm not trying to find another thing that's wrong with me, but I'm such a nice person, and I have a couple of drinks and I'm really good fun and then I'm really not fun. "

" A man doesn't know what it's like to be a woman; it's that simple. "

" What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that. "

" I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper. "

" I'd make a good friend, not mother. I'm too selfish. I think a lot of mothers are selfish and they end up having children, but I don't want to put some small tiny person through that. "

" People try constantly to use me, and I hate it. "

" I never grew up. "

" In New York, working at the foundry, I was making these little figures. I desperately would like to make big figures, but I just can't do it; my hands don't do it. We were talking about making bronze plinths, and then we made one, a square one. I wrote on it, then I put a little figure on top, and it just looked really good. It worked. "

" I want to spend my life with someone and do nice things and go on adventures, read books and have nice food and celebrate things. I don't want to spend the rest of my life in the bedroom like some people who just go to bed and never get out again. "

" I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was brought up. "

" It's happened time and time again, but the committee has always decided against it-the work was too conservative or didn't fit within the budget; there are millions of different reasons. "

" If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it. "

" My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now. "

" Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing. "

" The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess. "

" I really love animals. My cat is my little soul mate. He's not just a cat, he's my friend. "

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" One thing that success has taught me is censorship. "

" I've got to start using my brain more - I've got to be more ethereal and more enlightened. "

" I've been slagged off completely by the art world. "

" They look at someone like me, and I just really get up their nose. I really wind them up. "

" I know I'm supposed to say ageing doesn't bother me, then suddenly you're like, 'Yeah, I care about it, I really worry about it. I'm getting old. I'm old!' "

" People don't remember. Revenge is sweet. "

" I have hardly any friends who aren't gay. "