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My father was a newspaper editor, so I was surrounded by journalists my entire life. I think the fact that he was so well known may be why I chose to go into magazines and move to the States at a young age.

I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.

I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount.

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.

I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.

All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.

My kids are now the most popular kids in their school.

I think people of my generation became journalists - you know, right after the broadcast pioneer fathers - because we wanted to report the big stories.