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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

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

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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

Topics: David Generation Girl Jackson Michael Michael Jackson My Generation Slightly Younger

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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

Topics: Back Burner Children Give Had Important Kids Marriage Now Now And Then Person Put Quick Remember Stew Stir Tendency Then Why You

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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

Topics: About Back Bring Came Career Family Got Her Inside Job Light Like Love Mom Mother Passionate She Stay-At-Home Stay-At-Home Mom Stimulation Until Wrong You 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

Topics: Adore Book Film Hollywood Sneer Well Writer

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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

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

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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?'

~Allison Pearson

Topics: Baby Brain Change Cleaning Download Dry Fully Get Give Impossible Like Male Motherhood Program Software Tasks Them Two You

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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

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

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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.

~Allison Pearson

Topics: Brain Country Dead Feels Home Knows Like Lists Millions Night Our Really Run Small Small Country Spare Spare Time Task Through Time Us Who Women Your

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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.

~Allison Pearson

Topics: Act Any Balls Double Drop Hardest Head Invariably Juggling Laughter Life Mothers Our Own Revealed Time Which Working

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Biography

Nationality: Welsh

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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