Indeed – judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals. – Emma Thompson
If youve got to my age, youve probably had your heart broken many times. So its not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it. – Emma Thompson
I dont think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think theres some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. – Emma Thompson
And its absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating – and the levels of the communication that Ive seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why dont we have that here? – Emma Thompson
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. – G.B. Shaw, Getting Married, 1908