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. – Arabella Weir
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. – Arabella Weir
If ones honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly. – Arabella Weir
Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing – once youve achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim? – Arabella Weir
The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event – not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics – then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light. – Simon Winchester