Rachel Johnson

Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist…

— Rachel Johnson

If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

— Rachel Johnson

I am a total coffee snob and bore. If anyone makes the mistake of offering me 'a coffee' they tend to regret…

— Rachel Johnson

Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were…

— Rachel Johnson

I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women…

— Rachel Johnson

People always say there's no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think they're right, because it seems self-evident: nobody's going…

— Rachel Johnson

Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself…

— Rachel Johnson

It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest…

— Rachel Johnson

I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.

— Rachel Johnson

The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because there is really no such…

— Rachel Johnson

I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.

— Rachel Johnson

It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling…

— Rachel Johnson

I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.

— Rachel Johnson

I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.

— Rachel Johnson

Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

— Rachel Johnson

Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.

— Rachel Johnson

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the…

— Rachel Johnson

Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.

— Rachel Johnson

Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically…

— Rachel Johnson

When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.

— Rachel Johnson

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into…

— Rachel Johnson

English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe…

— Rachel Johnson

People always say theres no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think theyre right, because it seems self-evident: nobodys going…

— Rachel Johnson

The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys.

— Rachel Johnson

There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.

— Rachel Johnson