I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.
I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point.
I don't sleep with happily married men.
Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.
Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
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.
I used to have a lovely Chelsea loft - then I got divorced.
I don't want to be viewed as a womaniser or whatever. I don't like going crazy crazy, I like having fun but it's nice to wake up in your own bed, isn't it?
I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.
All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.