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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.

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.

Allison Pearson
Husband, Doe, Stories

When you're young your mother shields you from the world because she thinks you're too young to understand, and when she's old you shield her because she's too old to understand - or to have any more understanding inflicted upon her. The curve of life goes: want to know, know, don't want to know.

Allison Pearson
Mother, Thinking, Curves
"I Don't Know How She Does It". Book by Allison Pearson, 2003.

Can't is for pussies.

Allison Pearson
Pussy
Allison Pearson (2004). “I don't know how she does it: the life of Kate Reddy, working mother”

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.

Allison Pearson
Running, Country, Home

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