Allison Pearson
Allison Pearson
Allison Pearsonis a Welsh author and newspaper columnist. Her novel I Don't Know How She Does It, published in 2002, has been made into a movie of the same name starring Sarah Jessica Parker. I Think I Love You, her second novel, was published in 2010. A sequel to I Don't Know How She Does It was announced in 2015...
NationalityWelsh
ProfessionAuthor
unrequited-love love-is lasts
The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts.
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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.
baby motherhood two
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?'
sleep tired alternatives
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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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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Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms will find an instant tonic.
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Men worry about childcare with their wallets, women feel it in their wombs.
mother thinking curves
When you're young your mother shields you from the world because she thinks you're too young to understand, and when she's old you shield her because she's too old to understand - or to have any more understanding inflicted upon her. The curve of life goes: want to know, know, don't want to know.
men virtue century
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.
children remember
The times you don't make it are the ones children remember, not the times you do.
children men light
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.
children impossible-things answers
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.
mother stars boys
A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.
believe men want
I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.