Like cars, every relationship requires a bit of an occasional service, and fine-tuning should be compulsory. — Mariella Frostrup Car Copy Share Image
I was told that when you hit forty men stop looking at you. It's true, until you slip on a mini-skirt. — Mariella Frostrup Forty Copy Share Image
As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes. — Mariella Frostrup Doers Copy Share Image
It's perfectly possible to love your toddler but struggle to like them when times are hard. — Mariella Frostrup Child Copy Share Image
If I ever write a book, it will be called 'Bottle Blonde.' — Mariella Frostrup Blonde Copy Share Image
Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them. — Mariella Frostrup Actually Copy Share Image
If I was a man, I don't know if I'd settle down long before I was 50. — Mariella Frostrup Before Copy Share Image
Joy acts like a trampoline, everything that touches it bouncing right back off it. — Mariella Frostrup Bouncing Copy Share Image
For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became… — Mariella Frostrup Allure Copy Share Image
Kids are like glue: they can bond together, unlikely companions, even when there is little else left to maintain the connection. — Mariella Frostrup Bond Copy Share Image
In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend… — Mariella Frostrup Avoiding Copy Share Image
There are more than enough people with serious mental issues who really do need professional help without all the other Toms, Dicks… — Mariella Frostrup Couches Copy Share Image
Men want children later, but women can't rely on being able to. So I'm all for scientific advances and the help they… — Mariella Frostrup Able Copy Share Image
The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews… — Mariella Frostrup Books Copy Share Image
In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style… — Mariella Frostrup Apartment Copy Share Image
It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair. — Mariella Frostrup Circumstances Copy Share Image
When I last looked, there weren't queues of eager guys under 40 hanging outside single ladies' doors begging them to give up… — Mariella Frostrup Babies Copy Share Image
Translating any insights I have for strangers' lives into positive action in my own has proved a challenge. While I've learned a… — Mariella Frostrup About Copy Share Image
The point of the feminist movement wasn't simply to set our underwear on fire and muscle into small spaces in the male-dominated… — Mariella Frostrup Both 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… — Mariella Frostrup Austen Copy Share Image
I love my children, but I don't really want to talk about them. I'm not that much of a freakish middle-aged mother,… — Mariella Frostrup About Copy Share Image
Choosing to mother your kids full-time may seem to some the easy choice, eschewing as it does the stresses and strains of… — Mariella Frostrup Also Copy Share Image
While we women dilly-dally, making decisions, leaving jobs half done, forgetting where we've put the house keys while we water the Hoover… — Mariella Frostrup Ahead Copy Share Image
Normally, the thin-skinned have an endless array of excuses for why their workaday interactions are so much harder to bear for them… — Mariella Frostrup Abuse Copy Share Image
It's an absolute disgrace that there isn't a books programme on the BBC. — Mariella Frostrup Absolute Copy Share Image
In person, George Clooney lives up to all your expectations. — Mariella Frostrup Clooney Copy Share Image
Girls have a tendency to take responsibility for romantic misinterpretations, when often it's men whose perfectly honed emotional inscrutability makes life more… — Mariella Frostrup Complicated Copy Share Image
There are two ways of approaching your time on this planet: one is to sit around waiting for something to happen that… — Mariella Frostrup Existence Copy Share Image
I met Jason on a charity walk in 2001, and we got married on a friend's boat in Panama two years later.… — Mariella Frostrup Been Copy Share Image
Nothing can prepare you for the all-consuming nature of motherhood, and I am very aware of my good fortune, as I spent… — Mariella Frostrup About Copy Share Image
I love physical books, can't bear to throw them away, and am drowning under the weight of my collection, but I do… — Mariella Frostrup Am Copy Share Image
Loneliness and rootlessness are just symptoms of an insecurity that assails us all when hitting this midlife moment. The world appears intent… — Mariella Frostrup Appears Copy Share Image
It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood… — Mariella Frostrup Acknowledge Copy Share Image
I wasn't allowed to be clever when I was young and blonde, but now I am 50 and an old blonde, I… — Mariella Frostrup Blonde Copy Share Image
I've been accused of riding roughshod over others' emotions, and I admit, when I feel a friend is being over-indulgent, my patience… — Mariella Frostrup Accused Copy Share Image
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… — Mariella Frostrup Because Copy Share Image
Of course, I'd like to earn Jonathan Ross's money, but I don't have sleepless nights wondering when someone's going to knock on… — Mariella Frostrup Cash Copy Share Image
Coming from a broken home, I wanted to be as sure as I could be that my kids would have two parents… — Mariella Frostrup Bring Copy Share Image
Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let… — Mariella Frostrup Big mistake Copy Share Image
Every adult has the right to choose who they wish to spend their lives with, and we're all capable of making mistakes,… — Mariella Frostrup Adult Copy Share Image
