Yes, I know, shaming, isn't it? I always say you can take the girl out of the 80s, but you can't take the 80s out of the girl. Before I wrote my first novel, I was reading one of the self-help classics – and it's as cheesy as you like, so feel free to laugh, Guardian readers – called Awaken The Giant Within, by Tony Robbins, and it inspired me to try. I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit – your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look.
Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing. - Louise Mensch
Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.
- Louise Mensch
Yes, I know, shaming, isn't it? I always say you can take the girl out of the 80s, but you can't take the 80s out of the girl. Before I wrote my firs… - Louise Mensch
Yes, I know, shaming, isn't it? I always say you can take the girl out of the 80s, but you can't take the 80s out of the girl. Before I wrote my firs…
I want to retire very early, by the time I am 40, and go to live in Italy. - Louise Mensch
I want to retire very early, by the time I am 40, and go to live in Italy.
The nature of the internet is that you don't know who is behind the screen. - Louise Mensch
The nature of the internet is that you don't know who is behind the screen.
Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life. - Louise Mensch
Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.
I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don’t accept … - Louise Mensch
I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don’t accept …
That said, I can't emphasise enough - and I hope you print this - that I absolutely don't judge anybody at all who has an abortion, nor do I think th… - Louise Mensch
That said, I can't emphasise enough - and I hope you print this - that I absolutely don't judge anybody at all who has an abortion, nor do I think th…
Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I'd named… - Louise Mensch
Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I'd named…
I like my men to be manly, as you'll see from my books. - Louise Mensch
I like my men to be manly, as you'll see from my books.
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