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Endings are not my thing.

~Allison Pearson

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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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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.

~Allison Pearson

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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

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

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When we talk about women's struggle to balance their lives, certain men growl, 'If you can't stand the heat, get back to the kitchen.' Men who have never changed a nappy, mainly, and couldn't pick their child's teacher out in a police line-up.

~Allison Pearson

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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Biography

Nationality: Welsh

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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