Allison Pearson quotes

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

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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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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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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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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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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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.

Allison Pearson

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

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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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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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The times you don't make it are the ones children remember, not the times you do. (Allison Pearson)

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

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

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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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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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Sometimes it's a relief just to focus on putting one foot in front of the other.

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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.

Allison Pearson

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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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.

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I'm not a writer just to be a writer. I want to say something that really needs expressing.

Allison Pearson