Allison Pearson Quotes

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• God probably thinks it’s worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that…
• You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute…
• A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.
• Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments…
• No man would ever use both hands to hold a cup of tea, unless he was one day's march from the South Pole, with one…
• The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question.
• Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms will find an instant tonic.
• The quickest way to stop noticing something may be to buy it, just as the quickest way to stop appreciating a person may be to…
• Men worry about childcare with their wallets, women feel it in their wombs.
• I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.
• My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.
• For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly…
• My husband is old-fashioned and kind, he does the greatest Sinatra impression, and I'd never have written anything if he hadn't read all those bedtime…
• My ideals told me that men and women could both go out to work and be truly equal. My children told me something more complicated,…
• My mother was a stay-at-home mom until I was about 11, when she got a job - and it was like a light came on…
• When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then.…
• Women run the small country called Home, millions of us do it in our spare time, and no one who doesn't run that small country…
• Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at…
• The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to…
• The times you don't make it are the ones children remember, not the times you do.

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