Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family. – Francesca Annis
The funny thing is Im not bothered or sad about being on my own – after all Ive never had a husband. – Francesca Annis
Thank God were not like America. Everyone wants to look like theyre 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women I think men revere older women. – Francesca Annis
Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre. – Francesca Annis
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. – Winston Churchill, Roving Commission: My Early Life, 1930