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Judith Allison Pearson (née Lobbett; born 22 July 1960) is a British columnist and author.

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Allison Pearson about Nature:

My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's ...
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Allison Pearson about Work:

My ideals told me that men and women could both go out to work and be ...
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Allison Pearson about Women:

Women now influence the majority of consumer purchases. It is women's votes that will secure victory ...
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Allison Pearson about Women:

For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued ...
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Allison Pearson about Women:

I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.

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Judith Allison Pearson (née Lobbett; born 22 July 1960) is a British columnist and author.

Pearson has worked for British newspapers such as the Financial Times, The Independent, the London Evening Standard, The Daily Telegraph, and the Daily Mail. She has then worked as a newscaster for Channel 4 and BBC Radio 4. Pearson’s chick lit novel was published in 2002; a film getting used to with the same title, I Don’t Know How She Does It, was released in 2011.

Pearson has campaigned in favour of Brexit, and described Brussels as the jihadist capital of Europe. She has called for the establishment of internment camps in the United Kingdom. She has criticised the Gender Recognition Act 2004, and has asked for a stop to the supposed totalitarianism of the transgender minority. She has criticised use of position masks during the COVID-19 pandemic as demeaning.

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Allison Pearson about Women:

For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.

Allison Pearson about Women:

I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.

Allison Pearson about Greatest:

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 about Nature:

My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.

Allison Pearson about Love:

My mother was a stay-at-home mom until I was about 11, when she got a job - and it was like a light came on inside her. It's not wrong to be passionate about your career. When you love what you do, you bring that stimulation back to your family.

Allison Pearson about Work:

My ideals told me that men and women could both go out to work and be truly equal. My children told me something more complicated, something I really didn't want to hear. Their need for me was like the need for water or light: it had a devastating simplicity to it.

Allison Pearson about Change:

The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'

Allison Pearson about Marriage:

When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.

Allison Pearson about Time:

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 about Women:

Women now influence the majority of consumer purchases. It is women's votes that will secure victory at the next election, hence the altogether delicious spectacle of Messrs Brown and Cameron vying to tell stories about broken nights and childcare as men once boasted of goals scored or pheasants bagged.

Allison Pearson about Life:

Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.