Author: Allison Pearson

Quotes

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.

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.

- Allison Pearson

I have an American trainer - a bubbly Californian. I tell her, 'Welsh women don't run. We're congenitally incapable.' But she's got me up to five kilometers.

I have an American trainer - a bubbly Californian. I tell her, 'Welsh women don't run. We're congenitally incapable.' But she's got me up to five kilometers.

- Allison Pearson

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.

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.

- Allison Pearson

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

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

- Allison Pearson

We carry our younger selves with us our whole lives, and we can measure out of lives by music we've loved or icons we've loved.

We carry our younger selves with us our whole lives, and we can measure out of lives by music we've loved or icons we've loved.

- Allison Pearson

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

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

- Allison Pearson

If I had written a book saying, 'Ladies, your life is terrible,' I would have sold three copies. It's always better to laugh people into recognition.

If I had written a book saying, 'Ladies, your life is terrible,' I would have sold three copies. It's always better to laugh people into recognition.

- Allison Pearson

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