"One of these days, I feel sure, it is going to dawn on the world that the joys of the sexual act have been ludicrousl…"

"Well, it is a bit dated, isn’t it? Can we really suppose that a couple of thousand years from now human beings will s…"

"I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual. I believe in its imaginative qualities and its potential…"

"To begin with, I did think so. I seemed to fear in myself more of a compassion towards detail rather than sweep, if y…"

"But I should say I would never use the word change, as in "sex-change" for what happened to me. I did not change sex,…"

"The truth is, you are talking to someone at the very end of things. I felt that first about two years ago. I felt it …"

"Dimly through the silken trammels of Jan Morris's verbiage moves the figure of Elizabeth, James Morris's wife, now Ja…"

"In her bigoted review [Thursday] of Jan Morris's Conundrum, which gets so many facts wrong Germaine Greer describes m…"

"For Jan did have a terribly conventional idea of what a woman was. In the book she delights in having doors held open…"

"Deeper empathy, deeper understanding, I never saw or experienced – she was, I think, incapable of truly understanding…"