- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Bedtime
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women now influence the majority of consumer purchases. It is women's votes that will secure victory at the next election, hence the altogether delicious spectacle of Messrs Brown and Cameron vying to tell stories about broken nights and childcare as men once boasted of goals scored or pheasants bagged.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've struggled with depression, and the signs that I was falling apart - having heart palpitations at 4 A.M. - were there for a long time before I paid attention. Even when my psychiatrist gave me a questionnaire, I found myself trying to circle the answers that made me seem like I wasn't a wreck. I've since learned to listen to my body.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes it's a relief just to focus on putting one foot in front of the other.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My son was about five or six months old, and he was ill, and I was sent to New York to interview three people back to back. I got home, and I saw my baby. He had been very ill, and he was on three kinds of antibiotics. I'd been away for eight days. I looked at him and thought, 'What am I doing? I'm a terrible mother and a terrible journalist.'
- Nov 07, 2020
Endings are not my thing.
- Michael Jackson
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- Nov 07, 2020
Girls slightly younger tended to be Donny Osmond girls or Michael Jackson girls, but for my generation, it tended to be David Cassidy.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing that did give me pause for thought, when I told my female friends now that I was writing about a 13-year-old girl, without exception they all said, 'I would not go back to being 13 for a million pounds.'
- Measure
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every so often, you come across a member of the younger generation who makes you think, 'Well, perhaps the future's going to be OK after all.'
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I speak as the journalist who, on the first day back at work for 'The Daily Telegraph' after the birth of my daughter, went to interview Tom Hanks with an epaulette of banana sick on my jacket.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is customary for the writer to sneer that Hollywood has traduced their book. Well, I adore my film.
- Interested
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in the things that might seem slight or amusing but which I feel have a kind of profundity.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a writer just to be a writer. I want to say something that really needs expressing.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020