Katie Hopkins

Most wives look at me the way lame deer look at a hungry lion.

If you over-deliver and prove yourself to be an asset to the company, you will be rewarded as a result.

I watch 'The Great British Bake Off' in the way I used to watch people kiss on TV in front of my parents when I was young. Cringe.

Clear rules provide huge amounts of freedom: freedom to be safe and freedom to work efficiently because things are in order.

If you teach a child that appearance doesn't matter, what will be the next thing that child asserts her individuality over? Turning up on time? Turning up at all?

In my experience, people who think school is free fail to put a value on it or respect the opportunities it affords.

Investing in children's education is vital.

Work is hard, and jobs can be dull. But you can't just take a holiday when you feel like it. You turn up because it is the right thing to do.

Teaching kids to respect rules is key.

A state school class can only learn as fast as its thickest child. Your kid misses stuff, mine has to wait while yours catches up.

As I often lecture businesses, it is not the email you send which matters, but how people feel when they read it.

If you do a good deed, don't expect anything back - the other person can still be a complete git.

Being nice can make you feel very happy.

If you sign up for TV, expect the edit to make things interesting.

Scarcity is a good sales tactic if you are selling something people want.

In our private lives, we hate saying sorry. I would rather saute my eyeballs in butter than admit I am wrong to my husband.

Should people working in our country speak English? Yes, they should.

I admire Lady Gaga. She wears exactly what she likes, no matter how good or bad it turns out.

Sending a text and not having to talk takes the pressure off. You are always in control of digital conversations.

I am delighted to be named Troll Of The Year 2013 by 'The Guardian' - a paper read by people called Theo and women called Polly with body issues.

The Conservatives don't need more women. They need women like Karren Brady.

I want my girls to grow up learning that it is important their mum worked like a man.

When I hear a girl has had two babies by the age of 16, I think two things: Is she called Chardonnay, and what is she doing with her life?

Lots of people ask me, 'What do you do?' Apparently, being a columnist, TV bird, all-round good egg, mother of three, and wife of one is not sufficient for them.

If you are confiding in someone, it needs to be the woman in your life. If that woman is your mother, you may as well scuttle back under her petticoats and let the real women in pencil skirts and tortuous heels get on with the job of husband-hunting.

I think you can tell a great deal from a name. For me, there are certain names that I hear, and I think, 'Urgh.' For me, a name is a shortcut of finding out what class that child comes from and makes me ask, 'Do I want my children to play with them?'

There will come a day when someone calls to tell me my column's been binned, and that will be a really hard day, and I've already got it set up so that they'll ring someone else first - because I don't want to be given that news when I'm walking down the street, because it will be really heartbreaking.

Why am I not just some old woman ranting in a room? I think because what I say connects with people's truths.

I really believe the stuff I say.

Those that preach tolerance have become absolutely prescriptive in what's allowed to be thought.

Those who are most pious and noble tend to be the least tolerant.

If I was fat and had a strong regional accent and was a bloke, I'd be a stand-up. Because I think I'm funny.

I was a really bad single mum. I used to go to the supermarket just for somewhere to go.

Being a minority voice is still brave - even if the minority voice is from the right wing.

The opinion that Trump equals hate is not a fact. It is a view.

Clearly, children need to be aware of the news and current affairs. I buy my own children a children's newspaper so they can form their own views.

Imams seldom condemn terror. And in their silence, in the void, acceptance - encouragement even - is assumed.

I've been no-platformed from every university with a strong Islamic faith community.

If anyone is on my husband's arm, it's going to be me.

Anything that needs to be labelled 'The Entertainment' usually isn't - especially when it is provided by the endlessly enthusiastic Joel or Nadia wearing trainers and a whistle.

I am a big believer in fun for free.

As much as I love a smart kid who can spell nicely, I love a giggling kid wrapped in loo roll pretending to be a mummy even more.

Most mums are not reliable.

The BBC has a strict policy of having Clare Balding present everything.

Own your problems.

There are all sorts of parents I hate - super-keen parents, PTA parents, and fat parents on a bus.

I have seen many a tear-strewn individual during my time working on daytime TV's morning sofas: individuals encouraged to share their views, ill prepared for the backlash that social media will deliver direct to you, unregulated and unrelenting.

I will call out the lazy, the idle, and the ignorant. I will support the hard working, the industrious, and the law.

I have strong opinions, and I am not afraid to share them.

Politicians used to be leaders. Now they follow voters, desperate for a tick in a box.