Words matter. These are the best Mary Nightingale Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The four rings on my wedding finger are all very significant – my wedding ring, my mum’s wedding ring and the engagement rings of my granny and mother-in-law.
I became a chalet girl for one simple reason: I couldn’t afford to go skiing. I had got the bug when I worked as an au pair in the Alps, before university.
I think in terms of being a good presenter, it’s not as simple as having been out in a war zone. Actually the news is far broader than that.
I’m a good dressmaker. When I was a student I made all my own clothes, and earned good money making ball gowns and wedding dresses for my friends.
We spent our honeymoon at a fabulous place called the Grapevine Canyon Ranch near Tucson, Arizona, and totally fell for the City Slickers fantasy, so it would be wonderful to take the children there now that they are old enough to appreciate the thrill of cattle herding on horseback and sleeping out in the desert.
For me, weekends are more for unwinding than going out on the town.
I was a decent cook – competent enough to turn out the standard Eighties chalet fare: beef Wellington, banoffee pie, Delia’s chocolate bread-and-butter pudding – but it wasn’t haute cuisine.
If you want to be famous, you can be. You can go to all the things you are invited to. But I don’t take to that kind of nonsense.
When I entered my first newsroom in the late 80s it was packed with young people, a fairly balanced ratio of men and women, working as fixers, sub-editors, presenters and producers. Everyone was committed to the job, and equally ambitious.
I have never had a problem with not being able to do anything just because I am on telly every day.
There’s not a pie that I don’t like.
On Sunday morning, I’ll read the papers and listen to The Archers’ omnibus – I love radio at the weekend especially Any Questions?’ and the Woman’s Hour’ omnibus.
I think you should keep your head down and do your job and shut up It’s the news, it’s not about me.
Gradually, we fell in love with camper-vanning. It’s a strange business to begin with – rather like driving a large, rather flimsy cardboard box. It’s ugly, the suspension’s appalling, you rattle around like pebbles in a tin, and you can’t hear yourself speak above the engine.
My miscarriage made me realize that many modern career women take on too much.
We’ll just unwind in the evening by going out as a family for a pizza where we’ll meet up with other families we know from the children’s school.
First off, it’s a bit of a tired old chestnut that if a woman is pretty than she can’t be bright. God what are we in, the 19th century?
Hyams Beach is said to be the whitest in the world; walking on it is like wading through warm powdery snow – so clean it squeaks beneath your bare toes.
The challenge of election broadcasting is to stick to the story and line.
Life really is short, and you just have to go for it.
It’s still acceptable for male presenters to appear elderly but not their female counterparts. You will never find an old woman and a young man presenting combo.
I’ve always wanted to ride through the Pampas, and explore right down to the tip of Patagonia.
Young men and women start out with equal opportunities and ambition but so often that equality fractures as they reach their 30s and start reproducing. Is there really no way to make it work for those who want to have journalistic careers as well as children?
I think the knowledge and education of young women is incredibly important.
I am 47; I think I must be one of the oldest female newscasters on telly. There’s not many of us who still get to work regularly for this long.
I was always anxious about whether I’d find a career I loved or be able to afford to buy a house.
I didn’t come from the sort of family where Daddy would provide – so I had to work.
On screen you have to look elegant, understated and appropriate, and I used to spend masses on designer stuff, but now I get everything in Zara.
Newsrooms are still highly competitive, demanding environments. You have to be robust to hold your own amidst the alpha males and females.
We’re never home later than 9:30 P. M. and once the children are in bed, Paul and I have some wine and watch a box-set such as Breaking Bad.’
I’ve always got loads on my plate, so I should concentrate on fewer things. I take multitasking to a ridiculous degree.
‘Rebecca’ by Daphne du Maurier was the first grown-up book I read, when I was aged about 12.
It’s taking a while for older women to be the norm on TV.
Modern girls are much more informed than we were. Modern girls seem to know more and there is openness.
Stats are stats but if you want to be sure you’re going to have, say, three children with no problems, you should start at around 23.
It was a deliberate policy not to invite Hello!’ into my home. I could have done that stuff and made a lot of money, but I’ve never regretted not doing it.
It is with enormous regret that I have decided to leave Wish You Were Here?’ after two very happy years as its presenter. It was always my intention to do two years on this wonderful program and now it is time for me to move on to other things.
The modern world is about knowledge and it’s our job as mums to help our daughters.
I took a while to fall in love with Val d’Isere. It was November 1985 and, keen to delay getting a ‘serious job’ after university, I had signed up for a season as a chalet girl. What struck me first back then, as I rolled into town on the Bladon Lines bus, was the sheer ugliness of the place.
Look at Julie Etchingham and Katie Derham, none of us are spring chickens frankly, I don’t think people want to watch someone who’s wet behind the ears, you have to look like you understand what you are reading about.
