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
mom mother jobs
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.
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.
husband doe stories
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.
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.
mother children lefties
My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.
believe men want
I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.
unrequited-love love-is lasts
The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts.
thinking giving laughing
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.
mother stars boys
A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.
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?'
mother laughter balls
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.
children kids giving
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.
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...
return wells defined
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.