Allison Pearson

Columnist and author

1960-07-22

Allison Pearson is a British columnist and author known for newspaper commentary and the novel I Don't Know How She Does It.

Quotes by Allison Pearson

It is customary for the writer to sneer that Hollywood has traduced their book. Well, I adore my film.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The quickest way to stop noticing something may be to buy it, just as the quickest way to stop appreciating a person may be to marry them.
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Men worry about childcare with their wallets, women feel it in their wombs.
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