Arabella Weir

My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily…

— Arabella Weir

Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a…

— Arabella Weir

There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live…

— Arabella Weir

I met Tom Baker doing a voice-over when David [Arabella's friend, David Tennant] wasn't at all well known. We were doing this…

— Arabella Weir

In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or…

— Arabella Weir

Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?

— Arabella Weir

When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority…

— Arabella Weir

I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.

— Arabella Weir

I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.

— Arabella Weir

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

— Arabella Weir

I don't subscribe to the 'Doctor Who' magazine and we've only got the normal amount of 'Doctor Who' fridge magnets.

— Arabella Weir

If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.

— Arabella Weir

Both Plockton and the Isle of Muck in north-west Scotland are incredibly beautiful. Sadly, Plockton has been discovered by tourists because it's…

— Arabella Weir

I dont understand boys - just ask my husband.

— Arabella Weir

My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.

— Arabella Weir

Look, I want what's good for everybody. I want to promote good state education for all. I want to raise standards for…

— Arabella Weir

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.

— Arabella Weir

There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.

— Arabella Weir

My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.

— Arabella Weir

Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and,…

— Arabella Weir

If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally.

— Arabella Weir