3 Quotes & Sayings By Harriet Lane

Harriet Lane is a member of the UK's Chartered Institute of Journalists. She joined the Guardian's feature team in 1987, and was later promoted to deputy features editor. She has worked as a freelance feature writer for The Independent and The Observer, and as a feature editor for The Times, where she went to work after leaving the Guardian. For two years she was a regular contributor to The Observer's "Live" supplement Read more

In 2005 she was appointed Features Editor at The Times, where she has been responsible for commissioning and editing all its features.

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The house fills with the particular atmosphere that accompanies peacefully sleeping children: a rich narcotic silence that creeps down the stairs and twines itself around the table legs. Harriet Lane
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I once heard someone on the radio saying that a bee is never more than forty minutes away from starving to death, and this fact has stayed with me because it seems to have a certain personal resonance. My children are in a perpetual proximity to catastrophe: concussion, dehydration, drowning or sunstroke. Keeping them safe requires constant vigilance. I've turned into one of those mothers, full of terror. . Harriet Lane