Words matter. These are the best Rachel Johnson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Being boring is just wrong, isn’t it? You wouldn’t have got anywhere being boring.
In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.
I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of ‘Private Eye’ and a latte.
I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.
Of course I’m naughty. I’ve always had to compete for attention, you see.
I want ‘The Lady’ magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because there is really no such thing as age-appropriate dressing any longer, as I know because my wardrobe is interchangeable with my daughter’s.
Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: ‘I’ll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,’ to a bored colourist in a Mayfair salon, which is much more satisfying, not to mention cheap.
I love writing journalism because it’s all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done.
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone’s IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
It’s very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.
If there’s anything worse than being 16, it’s having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn’t do.
It’s often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it’s all utterly pointless.
If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that’s why politicians are extremely dull.
I’d like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.
Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
I’m worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don’t like the public image that I’ve been dressed with and it worries me.
Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.
