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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.'

~ Allison Pearson

Across After Come Every Future Generation Going Makes Member Often OK Perhaps Think Well Who You Younger Younger Generation

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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.

~ Allison Pearson

According Arise Centuries Comprehend How Manly Measured Men Needing Question Simply Up Valued Virtues Were Women

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Girls slightly younger tended to be Donny Osmond girls or Michael Jackson girls, but for my generation, it tended to be David Cassidy.

~ Allison Pearson

David Generation Girl Jackson Michael Michael Jackson My Generation Slightly Younger

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Going through puberty, that Cape Canaveral of the hormones, young girls are in love with the idea of being in love, trying it out for sighs.

~ Allison Pearson

Being Being In Love Cape Girl Going Hormones Idea Love Out Puberty Sighs Through Trying Young Young Girls

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I am a passionate devotee of the Howard Hawks' screwball comedies of the 1930s and the 1940s, where I think that the relations between men and women were at their civilized height in terms of banter and exchange of wit and equality.

~ Allison Pearson

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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

American Five Got Her Incapable Me Run She Tell Trainer Up Welsh Women

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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.

~ Allison Pearson

After Back Banana Birth Daily Daughter Day First Interview Jacket Journalist Sick Speak Telegraph Tom Tom Hanks Who Work

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I'm interested in the things that might seem slight or amusing but which I feel have a kind of profundity.

~ Allison Pearson

Amusing Feel I Feel Interested Kind Might Seem Slight Things Which

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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.

~ Allison Pearson

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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

Always Better Book Copies Had Ladies Laugh Life People Recognition Saying Sold Terrible Three Would Written Your

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It is customary for the writer to sneer that Hollywood has traduced their book. Well, I adore my film.

~ Allison Pearson

Adore Book Film Hollywood Sneer Well Writer

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It's not easy to reach the summit of your career by the age of 24 - and for the years after to be a humiliating scrabble downhill.

~ Allison Pearson

After Age Career Downhill Easy Humiliating Reach Scrabble Summit Years Your

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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.

~ Allison Pearson

Against Child Contest Mother Nature Nurture Tories Who

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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.

~ Allison Pearson

Anything Bedtime Chapters Dishwasher Does Greatest He Husband Impression Kind Never Old-Fashioned Over Read Sinatra Stories Those While Written

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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.

~ Allison Pearson

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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.

~ Allison Pearson

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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.'

~ Allison Pearson

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My strong sense now is that, as women have become more equal in society, so their depictions onscreen have become lamer and lamer and lamer, to the point that it's an embarrassment.

~ Allison Pearson

Become Embarrassment Equal More Now Onscreen Point Sense Society Strong Strong Sense Women

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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.'

~ Allison Pearson

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

~ Allison Pearson

Focus Foot Front Just Other Putting Relief Sometimes

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