Arabella Weir Quotes - Page 2

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

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  Girl, Tables, Might

  "Arabella Weir: I weighed my parents' love on the bathroom scales" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.

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• As an actress and comedienne, I'm a huge fan of he theatre and the Tricycle in Kilburn is my favourite in London. I dragged my kids to a performance of 'Twelfth Night' there, where they handed out pizza. Who knew that all it takes to get children interested in Shakespeare is a snack?

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  Children, Kids, Night

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• As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so.

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  Growing Up, Welcome, Made

  "Arabella Weir: I weighed my parents' love on the bathroom scales" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Father, Sibling, School

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• I don't think I've got the expertise with which to nit-pick, and I freely admit that my motivation to support charities has been emotional, rather than as a result of being particularly well informed as to how the money is used.

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  Motivation, Emotional, Thinking

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• Look, I want what's good for everybody. I want to promote good state education for all. I want to raise standards for all kids, irrespective of race and class but why can't they all just do what I say when I know I'm right?

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  Kids, Race, Class

  "Auditions are hell, but I never thought that I would have to go through 'casting' to get on Newsnight - and fail" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2006.

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• Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?

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  Family, Home, Years

  Arabella Weir (2012). “Does my Bum Look Big in This?”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• I dont understand boys - just ask my husband.

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  Husband, Boys, My Husband

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• 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.

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  Needs, Hurdling Obstacles, Theory

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• Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.

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  Self Esteem, Self Worth, Building Up

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• I wish my parents hadn't made me feel that how I looked was linked to how much they loved me. But I do also see how hard it must be to see your child pile on the pounds and trust they'll find their own way back to a healthy weight.

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  Children, Parent, Healthy

  "I weighed my parents' love on the bathroom scales" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.

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• Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.

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  Children, School, Firsts

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• There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.

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  Kindness, Teenager, School

  "I just want the best for my kids" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2008.

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

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  Simple, Parent, Generations

  "Arabella Weir: I weighed my parents' love on the bathroom scales". www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.

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• When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche.

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  Shopping, Cliche, Eating

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• In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image - a new year.

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  New Year, Exercise, Years

  "Try it - don't diet" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. December 31, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Feelings, These Days, Expected

  "I don't understand boys - they do things like stand in rivers waiting for fish they know won't come" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2007.

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• I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.

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  Charity, Requirements, Linked

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