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 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 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
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 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 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 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 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
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 Copy Share Image
There are many ways to make the most of your time on the planet, and propagation of the species is just one… — Mariella Frostrup Adoption Copy Share Image
Television executives only commission something that somebody else has already commissioned that's doing well on another station - they're afraid of expecting… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
While the male eye zooms in on a particular element to the exclusion of all else, a woman's gaze flickers from one… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
I used to go out with someone who was a really great diver, and we used to go to all the great… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
One of my few childhood memories is as an eight-year-old, refused permission to watch the Hitchcock season on Irish television, sneakily viewing… — Mariella Frostrup Birds Copy Share Image
I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
The point of the feminist movement wasnt simply to set our underwear on fire and muscle into small spaces in the male-dominated… — Mariella Frostrup Contribution 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 Copy Share Image
We inhabit a world where we're taught that we can have what we desire, and tend to act on it - the… — Mariella Frostrup 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 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
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
Many new lovers and spouses struggle to reconcile themselves with their partners' relationship history, but it's an insecurity I left behind in… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Having lived a full and stimulating life before I had my kids, I've relished every minute I've had to spend with them… — Mariella Frostrup Confidence Copy Share Image
From Mozambique to Chad, South Africa and Liberia, Sierra Leone to Burkina Faso, feminism is the buzzword for a generation of women… — Mariella Frostrup Chad Copy Share Image
I couldn't choose a favourite author, but two contemporary writers who have never disappointed me are Tim Winton and Alice Munro. — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Far too many girls' and women's romantic relationships are formed around a negation of their own worth and attributes rather than a… — Mariella Frostrup 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 Copy Share Image
