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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? ↗

— Arabella Weir

#education #everybody #good #i #irrespective

For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#being #instinctive #me #mum #really

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

— Arabella Weir

#benchmark #equals #fat #generation #parents

Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#first #first time #life #off #school

Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#being #bring #else #girl #might

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. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#dieting #even #ever #extremely #fat

Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#building #developed #diet #different #eventually

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim? ↗

— Arabella Weir

#aim #form #goal #once #success

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#charted #crushing #frequently #just #life

The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#eat #got #likes #may #me