Icons Quote by Allison Pearson

“We carry our younger selves with us our whole lives, and we can measure out of lives by music we've loved or icons we've loved.”

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“The way I look at it, women in the City are like first-generation immigrants. You get off the boat, you keep your eyes down, work as hard as you can and do your damnest to ignore the taunts of ignorant natives who hate you because you look different and you smell different and because one day you might take their…

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“Being your slave, what should I do but tend Upon the hours and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend, Nor services to do till you require. Nor dare I question with my jealous thought Where you may be or your affairs suppose, But like a sad slave stay and think of nought Save…

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“She laughed now, and the sound of it--clear as a bell, dirty as a rugby match--turned heads all along their row.”

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“‎"There is an easy standoff between the two kinds of mother which sometimes makes it hard for us to talk to each other. I suspect that the non-working mother looks at the working mother with envy and fear because she thinks that the working mum has got away with it. And the working mum looks back with fear and envy…

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I'm interested in the things that might seem slight or amusing but which I feel have a kind of profundity.

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