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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

I used to think about how I was conceived quite a lot when I was about 10 or 11, but I don't think about it at all now that so many other babies have been born in the same way.

I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.

I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.

I had friends of mine tell me they had a baby, and I didn't even know they were pregnant.

I find that women want to tell me about their birthing experiences. In the most excruciating detail. It's not put me off having children, but I do feel like I know too much.

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.

People talk about the miracle of birth. No. There's the miracle of conception. I did IVF, but nothing happened. So I began to think of adoption, and then I got pregnant. It was definitely a miracle.