Amy Jenkins Quotes

United Kingdom, Novelist
1966

Amy Jenkins is an English novelist and screenwriter. She is the daughter of political journalist Peter Jenkins and the stepdaughter of The Guardian columnist and author Polly Toynbee. In 2004 she married Jonathan Heawood, and they have one son.

I felt like swooning - women swooned so much in the old days because of all the sexual repression - well, I know how they felt. I felt like swooning.

Amy Jenkins
They say you’re meant to live everyday as if it were your last, which I’ve always thought was daft, since no one would ever pay the gas bill if that was the case, but what if it were your first?

Amy Jenkins
- Live
- Everyday
- Last

Oh I believe in loving cats and dogs and children and parents – sometimes – but I don’t believe in romantic love. Of course, there’s the momentary rush of hormones and chemicals that encourages us to mate, but it’s biology – it’s no more inherently mystical than the nicotine in that cigarette you’re smoking.

Amy Jenkins
- Believe
- Children
- Love
How bad does it have to be before you do something about it?

Amy Jenkins
- Bad
- To Do
- Before