Top 42 Allison Pearson Quotes

#1. 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 stories and unloaded the dishwasher while I slaved over chapters.

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#2. Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her?

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#3. 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 inside her. It's not wrong to be passionate about your career. When you love what you do, you bring that stimulation back to your family.

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#4. In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

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#5. 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 chum dead in the snow, dogs all eaten and six fingers about to drop off. And even then he would look around the empty tent to check, in case anybody thought it was girly.

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#6. My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.

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#7. Unfortunately, the case for equal opportunities, long established in
liberal Western society, cuts no ice in the fundamentalist regime if
the five-year old. There is no God but Mummy, and Daddy is her
prophet.

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#8. People say that time is a great healer. Which people? What are they talking about? I think some feelings you experience in your life are written in indelible ink and the best you can hope for is that they fade a little over the years.

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#9. One of the best things about having children is that it enables you to have the same loving memories as another person - you can summon the same past. Two flashbacks but with a single image.

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#10. 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 change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'

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#11. A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.

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#12. Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms will find an instant tonic.

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#13. 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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#14. I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.

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#15. I forget the derivation of Boxing Day, but the feeling of wanting to invite your loved ones outside one at a time and punch them in the face, does that come into it somewhere?

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#16. The thing about teen idol," Louisa is saying, "is he morphs through time. The boys' faces and names change, but the emotional need they fulfill, well, that never changes.

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#17. 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, something I really didn't want to hear. Their need for me was like the need for water or light: it had a devastating simplicity to it.

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#18. The times you don't make it are the ones children remember, not the times you do.

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#19. 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 at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever ...

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#20. . . . to serve so selflessly, you have to subdue something in yourself.

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#21. The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question.

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#22. 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 are wrong with us.

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#23. When you're young your mother shields you from the world because she thinks you're too young to understand, and when she's old you shield her because she's too old to understand - or to have any more understanding inflicted upon her. The curve of life goes: want to know, know, don't want to know.

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#24. 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 virtues.

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#25. When he laughed, Roy's mouth revealed a Stonehenge of ancient teeth.

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#26. Sweet peas were the kind of flowers fairies slept in.

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#27. A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl

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#28. Men worry about childcare with their wallets, women feel it in their wombs.

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#29. 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 any time, invariably on our own head.

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#30. 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 really knows what it feels like in the dead of night when task lists jitter like tickertape through your seething brain.

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#31. Dying is totally out of the question.

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#32. Women used to have time to make mince pies and had to fake orgasms. Now we can manage the orgasms, but we have to fake the mince pies. And they call this progress.

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#33. The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts.

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#34. For men, life is a highway. For women it is a roadmap.

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#35. Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman.

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#36. Even the moon gets to put its feet up once a month. Man in the Moon, of course. If it was a Woman in the Moon, she'd never sit down. Well, would she? I

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#37. Being a parent doesn't get any easier, ... it just gets hard in a different way.

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#38. Children are the proof we've been here ... they're where we go to when we die. They're the best thing and the most impossible thing, but there's nothing else ... Life is a riddle and they are the answer. If there's any answer, it has to be them.

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#39. 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. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.

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#40. 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 that can never be paid off.

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#41. Can't is for pussies.

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#42. My mother thinks some disaster has happened if I don't return a phone call from her within twenty-four hours. It's hard to explain that the only chance to return the call will be when a disaster ISN'T happening, stormy being the prevailing climate with surprise outbreaks of calm.

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