In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.

Kate Reardon

Categorized in : You Me Soul Pain

A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.

Kate Reardon

teach resilience school

I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.

Kate Reardon

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My favourite thing in my wardrobe is my jewelry.

Kate Reardon

favourite-things jewelry favourite

No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.

Kate Reardon

proud rose class

Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.

Kate Reardon

polo fashion

The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.

Kate Reardon

employers communicate way

If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.

Kate Reardon

make-you-happy focus skills

It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners people will like you.

Kate Reardon

good-man matter people

Being chaotic isn't cute.

Kate Reardon

being chaotic cute

There's a difference between being posh and being rich.

Kate Reardon

difference being being-rich rich

The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.

Kate Reardon

dress queen new wedding

A good education gives you confidence to stick up your hand for anything - whether it is the job you want, or the bloke. And the more you stick up your hand, the better your chances are that you will get what you want.

Kate Reardon

good you confidence education

I have a beautiful Hellenistic gold and garnet ring - it's more than 2,200 years old, but it looks very modern.

Kate Reardon

ring gold beautiful looks

Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.

Kate Reardon

dress each appropriate age

Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.

Kate Reardon

your luck play life

Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.

Kate Reardon

think women time today

As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.

Kate Reardon

you style home morning

The modern world is a meritocracy where you earn your own luck, old school ties count for nothing, and inherited privilege can even lose a guy a clear parliamentary majority.

Kate Reardon

you luck world school

The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.

Kate Reardon

you women trouble want

Anya Hindmarch is indeed a handbag designer; she has the requisite fabulous life, tasteful home, and loving husband. She is also beautiful and self-deprecating, and has five children aged 5 to 20 and a philanthropic bent which spans causes from cancer care to Britain's Conservative Party.

Kate Reardon

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