75 Quotes by Ruby Wax

1 in 5 people have dandruff. 1 in 4 people have mental health problems. I’ve had both.

Being a mother is hard and it wasn’t a subject I ever studied.

The ultimate freedom lies in knowing everything, including you, is in a state of flux; you’re never still, you’re always ‘nexting’;.

Nannies love working in our house because they never know who’s gonna walk through the door.

I’ll say it again – mental illness is a physical illness. You wouldn’t consider going up to someone suffering from Alzheimers to yell, “Come on, get with it, you remember where you left your keys?” Let us shout it from the rooftops until everyone gets the message; depression has and nothing to do with having a bad day or being sad, it’s a killer if not taken seriously.

I’ve told so many lies about my age I don’t know how old I am myself.

We never see the world as it really is but only how we see it. And because we’re trapped in our own interpretation, we are prepared to go to war with other people caught in their view of reality – and never the twain shall meet.

Why is that when people become ill and have something wrong with any of their organs, they get sympathy from other people – except when that organ is their brain?

And as we get older, our lenses get more and more narrow and blurrier until we only see our own tiny pin-point view; this limited vision eventually makes bigots of us all. This is why so many marriages fall apart. You meet someone, think that you know them, marry them and then ten years later you divorce them because they turned out not to be who you thought they were. They never were.