Top 41 Quotes by Arabella Weir

Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what's more, they weren't expected to.

My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.

I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.

If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.

My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.

Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.

I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.

My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.

I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.