A biography for Ulrika Jonssonhasn’t been written yet.
“I hated my girls' love of princesses, ballet and all things pink and glittery. I didn't want it foisted on them at such a tender age.”
“Apart from anything else, in the most genuinely self-deprecating way, I find it very hard to watch myself on screen, whatever you might think.”
“25% מהנשים היו קורבנות של אלימות במשפחה – ואני אחת מהן.”
“נהגתי לצפות באירוויזיון כילדה קטנה בשוודיה, הייתי להוטה מאוד לקבל את תפקיד המנחה כשגילינו שהוא ייערך בבריטניה. סיפרתי על כך לסוכנת שלי ואמרתי לה שאשמח להנחות את זה ושאני דו לשונית. זו העבודה היחידה שאי פעם ביקשתי.”
“יש אנשים שאוהבים את עניין התהילה. בשבילי זו הייתה חרב פיפיות. זו הדרך בה התפרנסתי.”
“הכוונה שלי אף פעם לא הייתה להיות מפורסמת, עשיתי עבודה שהייתי טובה בה ומאוד אהבתי.”
“I never saw it as a pursuit of absolute perfection but rather that I would constantly criticise myself if there weren't certain standards - in the home, in the garden, with the children, with work. I rarely stopped and just let things be.”
“I don't condone any kind of violence. I've been on the receiving end of violence as an adult. I've witnessed it.”
“Once women reach a certain age we like to consign them to some dark corner of society where we don't have to bother with them again.”
“My experience of the press has always been one of fear. They make me nervous and scared.”
“If I'm too lively, too crazy for someone, then you're not my guy.”
“I'm no diva, so the idea of 'rough-ing it' in Scotland's Inner Hebrides posed no panic in my heart. I'm a Swede. We are nature people.”
“I never had any idea how much happiness flaking on the sofa and doing nothing could bring.”
“A tag I am happy to bear is that of feminist. I was born in one of the most egalitarian countries in the world, where women bear as much weight as men.”
“Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but I also know that funny outlasts pretty any day of the week.”
“I have always been very low down on the list of priorities in the world of family and domesticity.”