75 Quotes by Ruby Wax

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'.

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.

Thoughts aren't fact, so don't take them seriously

You shouldn't run away from your problems, you need to aim straight for the heart of the beast.

[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.

My ultimate fantasy is to entice a man to my bedroom, put a gun to his head and say, 'Make babies or die'.

How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?

Only if you're kind to yourself, can you be kind to others.

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.