You're allowed to have gravitas when you've got the wrinkles to prove it, but not when you're attractive and younger - or, at least, you have to fight really hard to prove you're capable of productive thought. — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Saturday and Sunday mornings are the only time the children are allowed to turn on the television. — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Had Elizabeth Bennet known how wildly Darcy's heart beat for her, 'Pride and Prejudice' would barely have made it into a short story. Their… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share
While we women dilly-dally, making decisions, leaving jobs half done, forgetting where we've put the house keys while we water the Hoover and leave… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share
It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood almost invariably… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share
Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too! — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share
Writers want to talk. They can't wait to tell you what they've been thinking. And because they've been in solitude, they've had some fairly… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share
The point of the feminist movement wasn't simply to set our underwear on fire and muscle into small spaces in the male-dominated workplace, but… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share
For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality,… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share
I used to go out with someone who was a really great diver, and we used to go to all the great dive spots… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share
There are more than enough people with serious mental issues who really do need professional help without all the other Toms, Dicks and Harriets… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share
I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share
As for tweeting and texting: impassioned discussions, particularly when they're intimate, don't work in abbreviated script messages. No relationship should begin or end in… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share
Finding extracurricular activities with your husband that are unrelated to children, family and work is a priority. — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share
One of my few childhood memories is as an eight-year-old, refused permission to watch the Hitchcock season on Irish television, sneakily viewing 'The Birds'… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share
Joy acts like a trampoline, everything that touches it bouncing right back off it. — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share
