Allison Pearson Quotes

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

  Allison Pearson

  Suffering, Withdrawal, Symptoms

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• 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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  Return, Wells, Defined

  Allison Pearson (2002). “I Don't Know how She Does it: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• 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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  Mother, Laughter, Balls

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• 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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  Tired, Sleep, Alternatives

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

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  Children, Men, Worry

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• 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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  Mamá, Madre, Trabajos

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• 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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  Children, Men, Light

  "Resistance is useless" by Allison Pearson, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2002.

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• 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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  Christmas, Boxing, Feelings

  Allison Pearson (2004). “I don't know how she does it: the life of Kate Reddy, working mother”

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

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  Musician, Answers, Knows

  Allison Pearson (2011). “I Think I Love You”, p.224, Random House

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• Cuando se tienen hijos, se tiende a dejar de lado el guiso matrimonial y a darle una vuelta de vez en cuando. Pero es importante recordar por qué tuviste hijos con esa persona.

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  Niños, Niños, Dar

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• The quickest way to stop noticing something may be to buy it, just as the quickest way to stop appreciating a person may be to marry them.

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  Appreciate, May, Way

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• 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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  Children, Impossible Things, Answers

  Allison Pearson (2010). “I Don't Know How She Does It”, p.165, Random House

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

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  Creer, Hombres, Querer

  "Irrational. Contradictory. Mad" by Allison Pearson, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2007.

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• 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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  Loss, Numbers, Infinite

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• 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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  Girly, Dog, Men

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• 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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  Thinking, Giving, Laughing

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

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  Niños, Recordar

  Allison Pearson (2004). “I don't know how she does it: the life of Kate Reddy, working mother”

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• 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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  Thinking, Talking, Years

  Allison Pearson (2004). “I don't know how she does it: the life of Kate Reddy, working mother”

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

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  Mother, Stars, Boys

  Allison Pearson (2004). “I don't know how she does it: the life of Kate Reddy, working mother”

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• 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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  Baby, Motherhood, Two

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• Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her?

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  Godmother, Needs, Fairy

  Allison Pearson (2004). “I don't know how she does it: the life of Kate Reddy, working mother”

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

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  Unrequited Love, Love Is, Lasts

  Allison Pearson (2003). “I Don't Know how She Does it: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl

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  Girl, Dad, Father

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• 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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  Men, Virtue, Century

  "Irrational. Contradictory. Mad" by Allison Pearson, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2007.

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• 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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  Husband, Doe, Stories

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