My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit. — Dawn French Copy Share Image
Turn up your radio. Watch lots of telly and eat loads of choc. Feel guilty. Stay up all night. Learn everything in six hours that has taken you two years to compile. That's how I did it. — Dawn French Copy Share Image
I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
That's the awful thing about dating. Tight underwear. We would all like to be in a big bra and pants and when you are… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
That's the weird thing about not being married - you can't get regular kissing; you can't be guaranteed of it, and that's a great… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
Why would anyone want to be called a size zero or even aspire to being a zero? I don't even understand the thinking behind… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
“Now, he numbly stands stock-still, in abject fear that this whole catastrophe may well be his doing.” — Dawn French Copy Share Image
I do think you are supposed to go through wars with your child because otherwise the tearing apart that has to happen when they… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
If I were alive in Rubens's time, I'd be celebrated as a model. Kate Moss would be used as a paint brush. — Dawn French Copy Share Image
“We were a bit like bacon and eggs, where y'know, the chicken is involved, but the pig is really committed? I totally gave myself… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
Evolving into a middle-aged person is quite interesting if we can understand what it means. I would like to think it meant being a… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Dear Fatty,' I realised that sitting and writing alone is an absolute joy. — Dawn French Copy Share Image
I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
