“It's not easy to reach the summit of your career by the age of 24 - an...” — Allison Pearson Quote

“It's not easy to reach the summit of your career by the age of 24 - and for the years after to be a humiliating scrabble downhill.”

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

“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.”

“Going through puberty, that Cape Canaveral of the hormones, young girls are in love with the idea of being in love, trying it out for sighs.”

“My strong sense now is that, as women have become more equal in society, so their depictions onscreen have become lamer and lamer and lamer, to the point that it's an embarrassment.”

“Endings are not my thing.”

“The thing about impressing your girlfriend is that when you do something like a private island in Fiji, it's all downhill from that point.”

“To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray.”

“I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill.”

“Trae can shoot floaters, he can shoot 3s, he can get downhill and throw lobs. But if teams can figure that out, it's like, OK, what do you have next?”

“I know if I rest, I'll slide downhill fast.”

“There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.”