I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted of being different of not having a man all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.

A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.

I don't know how it is for women or for other guys but when I was young and in my 20s I had a fear of marriage.

When women hold off from marrying men we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women we call it fear of commitment.

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

I write for those women who do not speak for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us but it won't.

You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.

I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.

I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes the famous and the unknown who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.

What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be but it became a kind of shell non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.

I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.

I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family at all costs.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money because Africa was the 'dark continent' and because I was a girl.

Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible.

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.