Quotes By Arabella Weir

Look, I want what's good for everybody. I want to promote good state education for all. I want to raise standards for all kids, irrespective of race and class but why can't they all just do what I say when I know I'm right?

My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.

If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally.

I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.

Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.

I don't understand boys - just ask my husband.

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.

I wish my parents hadn't made me feel that how I looked was linked to how much they loved me. But I do also see how hard it must be to see your child pile on the pounds and trust they'll find their own way back to a healthy weight.

I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.

My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.

My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight.