“I am a passionate devotee of the Howard Hawks' screwball comedies of t...” — Allison Pearson Quote

“I am a passionate devotee of the Howard Hawks' screwball comedies of the 1930s and the 1940s, where I think that the relations between men and women were at their civilized height in terms of banter and exchange of wit and equality.”

“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?'”

“I speak as the journalist who, on the first day back at work for 'The Daily Telegraph' after the birth of my daughter, went to interview Tom Hanks with an epaulette of banana sick on my jacket.”

“The conservative values of limited government and freedom for all coincide with the movement for full freedom and equality for LGBT Americans.”

“If inequalities of taxable wealth backing up a government service are construed as denying equality before the law, then there is no solution but to have every government service whatever financed out of Washington.”

“There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.”