"In Ethiopia... you might find a seven-year-old expected……" — Joanna Lumley
"In Ethiopia... you might find a seven-year-old expected to take 15 goats out into the fields for the whole day with only a chapati to eat and his whistle. Why are we so afraid to give our children responsibilities like this?"
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40 Quotes by Joanna Lumley
Joanna Lumley has 40 quotes on this site.
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If you're an enthusiast and you love the world like I do, it comes naturally. But I think charity must…
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I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it away
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I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is…
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I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat…
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I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability.
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Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.
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Theyre not group animals, theyre completely solitary, so if the babys mother is taken away, theres no system of aunts…
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I dont think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are…
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I prefer not to eat food that has a face.
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I've been given this blessing, which is my granddaughter. You're no longer just you. You suddenly fit into the chest…
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We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry…
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NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction…
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