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
You're allowed to have gravitas when you've got the wrinkles to prove it, but not when you're attractive and younger - or,… — Mariella Frostrup Allowed 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
Like cars, every relationship requires a bit of an occasional service, and fine-tuning should be compulsory. — Mariella Frostrup Car 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
If I was going to write something, I'd need to stop for three months and just see if I had any thoughts… — Mariella Frostrup Any Copy Share Image
I was raised a socialist by two very socialist parents, and I still feel very animated about socialist principles. — Mariella Frostrup About Copy Share Image
We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to… — Mariella Frostrup Anniversary Copy Share Image
Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship. — Mariella Frostrup Incompatibility 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
Often, those who bruise easily spend too much time thinking about themselves. I'd go so far as to say that oversensitivity is… — Mariella Frostrup About Copy Share Image
With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades… — Mariella Frostrup Baby Copy Share Image
I can't sleep in an isolated place without pills, earplugs, and both my children in bed with me for fear of scary,… — Mariella Frostrup Bed Copy Share Image
Ageing is one of those battles you're not going to win. I'll try to look as good as I can as long… — Mariella Frostrup Ageing 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
The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances. — Mariella Frostrup Advantage 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
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
I was brought up in the countryside in Ireland and would go bonkers if I couldn't escape the city. I like to… — Mariella Frostrup Birds Copy Share Image
Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for. — Mariella Frostrup Challenges Copy Share Image
Too often we forget that an ideal partner is someone who enhances an already full existence. — Mariella Frostrup Existence Copy Share Image
When a father of a daughter dies, you elevate them. And you sort of deify them. — Mariella Frostrup Children 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
Mixed messages are just part and parcel of the romantic terrain, and rather than berate yourself for any crossed wires, you'd do… — Mariella Frostrup Any Copy Share Image
Placing 'amicable' and 'separation' together creates an oxymoron - we don't usually decide to end a partnership until the very sight of… — Mariella Frostrup Agony Copy Share Image
