“Eat like you love yourselfMove like you love yourselfSpeak like you love yourselfAct like you love yourself”

“Eat like you love yourselfMove like you love yourselfSpeak like you love yourselfAct like you love yourself”

“done coma, walking/talking,art, cookery. scouts then wrote two books, asked for help, gave a book to HRH Princess Anne, tried publisher, got another DEGREE, now Google Gillian Mk2, what else can I do?”

“Eat like you love yourselfMove like you love yourselfSpeak like you love yourselfAct like you love yourself”

“By the power of three times three!” exclaimed Gillian. “You could qualify as your own continent, man!”

“I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people—people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin—that they’d be bored as hell by me. It’s a lonely way to go through life.”

“It was one of the few stories we told the same way.”

“I know of other mothers who have children with disabilities,and right away they loved them and decided to fight for them.That isn’t my story.”

“Forgiveness is the subjective and fertile ground the acorn falls upon when gifted to ourselves and others.”

“I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it.”

“A theme that has always interested me is how women express anger, how women express violence. That is very much part of who women are, and it's so unaddressed. A vast amount of literature deals with cycles of violence about men, antiheroes. Women lack that vocabulary.”

“As opposed to trying to make a kiss look romantic or sweet or passionate, it's kind of fun to just have the freedom to make it look weird, goofy and awkward.”