Author: Arabella Weir

Quotes

Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.

Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.

- Arabella Weir

Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.

Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.

- Arabella Weir

I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.

I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.

- Arabella Weir

I have never done a package tour in my life. It appeals in a way, but then I remind myself that you can't control the other people with you, which could turn out to be ghastly.

I have never done a package tour in my life. It appeals in a way, but then I remind myself that you can't control the other people with you, which could turn out to be ghastly.

- Arabella Weir

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

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

- 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 life of crime.

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 life of crime.

- Arabella Weir

Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.

Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.

- Arabella Weir

With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.

With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.

- Arabella Weir

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