Does my Bum Look Big in This?
A source page for quotes linked to Arabella Weir.
“Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?”
“The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too.”
“I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.”
“If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.”
“My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.”
“I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.”
“When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche.”
“My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.”
“There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.”
“If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.”
“Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.”
“If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.”
“Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.”
“I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.”