Quotes of the day

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Anyone who says there aren’t roles for women of a certain age are wrong, as long as they write them themselves.” Sue Perkins at the Bafta Awards. “

Two of the best roles I have ever had have happened in my late forties – so I can’t complain. At a time when most actresses are disappearing and becoming invisible, I am becoming visible.” Actress Sarah Lancashire, saying it is too early to celebrate gender equality in the TV industry. “

It was one thing for me, a former politician, to become for a short period of time a TV star, it was quite another thing for the American people to elect a reality TV star as president of the US.” Ex-Labour MP and Strictly star Ed Balls. “

I’m afraid in my household my husband does all the cooking and most of the domestic tasks. I get on with the girl job of running the country. Nicola Sturgeon mocks the Prime Minister over her “girl jobs and boy jobs” in the household. “Hooray. D-Day veteran Bryson William Verdun Hayes’s comment after a 15,000ft skydive at the age of 101.