Top 41 Quotes by Arabella Weir

With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.

There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.

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.

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

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