Ruby Wax quotes
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“Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.”
-- Ruby WaxSource : "Happy and Crappy Days As a New Mom" by Chelsey Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2014.
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“Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?”
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“People who say ... they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us.”
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“For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it.”
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“[With depression] you get a real sense of shame, because your friends go, 'Oh come on, show me the lump, show me the x-rays,' and of course you've got nothing to show.”
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“Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.”
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“Only if you're kind to yourself, can you be kind to others.”
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“I always ask the booksellers to look at me and recommend a book; 9 out of 10, they get it right; it’s usually a book about someone dysfunctional. To me bookstores are like brothels of imagination, each book is luring me over going, 'Read me, read me'.”
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“Thoughts aren't fact, so don't take them seriously”
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“My ultimate fantasy is to entice a man to my bedroom, put a gun to his head and say, 'Make babies or die'.”
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“By the time dessert arrives I am usually so drunk, I can't remember what I'm serving.”
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“College athletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.”
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“How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?”
-- Ruby WaxSource : "What's so funny about mental illness?". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2012.
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“Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body so I haven't done anything that bad.”
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“What once made you safe now drives you insane.”
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“I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn't wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet.”
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“I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.”
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“I can't do anything too serious like Saddam Hussein, but I would like to do Bill Clinton. That'd be fun.”
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“You shouldn't run away from your problems, you need to aim straight for the heart of the beast.”
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“I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced”
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“Depressions are very cyclical, they happen once every five years. When I was on TV, yes I was effervescent, you can't fake it. It [depression] comes like the pox.”
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“You have to be great friends and make each other laugh. We laugh a lot and neither is jealous of the other.”
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“Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't.”
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“I knew nothing about football, then someone showed me a film of Petit and I realised how interesting the game could be. He is divine. When I met him I could barely speak, he was so gorgeous. Women will love that show.”
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“I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.”
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