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Mariella Frostrup
British Journalist
Born: Nov 12, 1962
Down Life Me Women World You
Related authors: Alastair Campbell Caitlin Moran David Attenborough Malcolm Muggeridge Martin Bashir Nigella Lawson Rose George Tony Wilson
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 decent thoughts. Mariella Frostrup
Thoughts You Solitude Wait Thinking Tell Some Writers Had Talk Fairly Because Been Decent Want
Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy. Mariella Frostrup
Think Baby Sympathy Having Having A Baby Disaster Any Your Career
Men want children later, but women can't rely on being able to. So I'm all for scientific advances and the help they can give people. Mariella Frostrup
Women People Men Later Able Give Rely Advances Scientific Being Children Want Help
I would go out with people who really didn't like me very much and then wonder why we weren't getting married! Mariella Frostrup
Me People Out Married Would Like Go Were Very Wonder Getting Getting Married Then Much Really Who Why
What an unappealing responsibility that is to lumber any prospective lover with: the need to be a saviour, not simply an equal partner. Mariella Frostrup
Responsibility Partner Lover Saviour Simply Prospective Equal Any Lumber Need
For many, long-term friendships, rather than family ties, are the foundations for sustainable lives. Mariella Frostrup
Family Rather Long-Term Ties Friendships Than Family Ties Sustainable Many Foundations Lives
We inhabit a world where we're taught that we can have what we desire, and tend to act on it - the least we can do is admit to it when we succumb to our instincts. Mariella Frostrup
World Our Admit Tend Instincts Least Taught Where Inhabit Act Succumb Desire
When the going gets tough, the prospect of delegating half your responsibilities to a willing volunteer, either to play a supporting role or take over the breadwinning, certainly holds allure. Mariella Frostrup
Tough Half Responsibilities Willing Take Allure Volunteer Prospect Supporting Over Supporting Role Role Gets Going Holds Either Your Certainly Play
Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow. Mariella Frostrup
You Demanding Once Only Allow Adulthood Child Offspring Your Raised
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 torturously slow-burning romance is a classic example of how men and women still struggle to communicate the most basic of emotions. Mariella Frostrup
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There are many ways to make the most of your time on the planet, and propagation of the species is just one of them. If you're convinced that it's the key to your happiness, there are routes open to you, whether with the help of modern medical science, marrying into a readymade one, or through fostering and adoption. Mariella Frostrup
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There are two ways of approaching your time on this planet: one is to sit around waiting for something to happen that will make sense of your existence, and the other is to get out there and find purpose for yourself. Mariella Frostrup
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In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style security arrangements. Mariella Frostrup
Despite Our Security City Small Through Hours Arrangements Wake Upright Apartment Convinced Bolt Swiss
From Mozambique to Chad, South Africa and Liberia, Sierra Leone to Burkina Faso, feminism is the buzzword for a generation of women determined to change the course of the future for themselves and their families. Mariella Frostrup
Future Change Generation Women Feminism South Africa Sierra Sierra Leone Determined Course South Families Africa Themselves Chad
Choosing to mother your kids full-time may seem to some the easy choice, eschewing as it does the stresses and strains of the workplace, but one of the continuing frustrations for women is the lack of respect they get for taking on the responsibility for domestic life, whether they're also working outside the home or not. Mariella Frostrup
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Kids are like glue: they can bond together, unlikely companions, even when there is little else left to maintain the connection. Mariella Frostrup
Together Else Unlikely Kids Maintain Like Glue Left Little Companions Connection Even Bond
Finding extracurricular activities with your husband that are unrelated to children, family and work is a priority. Mariella Frostrup
Work Family Husband Finding Unrelated Priority Children Your Activities
Romantic comedies seem to take over where the fairytales of childhood left off, feeding our dreams of a soulmate; though, sadly, the Hollywood endings prove quite elusive in the real world. Mariella Frostrup
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It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair. Mariella Frostrup
Despair Our Easier Circumstances Count Disadvantages Generally Outweigh Up Than Much
Every adult has the right to choose who they wish to spend their lives with, and we're all capable of making mistakes, but no one escapes with their self-regard intact. Mariella Frostrup
Wish Mistakes Making Mistakes Every Spend Adult No-One Making Intact Escapes Capable Choose Who Lives Right
Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of positive attributes, a meeting of mind, body and soul that is all the more powerful as it is not weighed down with neediness and unreasonable expectation. Mariella Frostrup
Positive Best Soul Passion Mind Expectation Down Meeting Relationships More Unreasonable Weighed Mythology Powerful Most Attributes Vulnerability Contrary Durable Body Popular Based
The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances. Mariella Frostrup
Great Change Thought Resolve Our Circumstances Rational Advantage Employ Human Being Being Human Great Advantage
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 connect back to childhood experiences. Mariella Frostrup
Truth Fear Back Phobias Invariably Parent Adulthood Almost Wishes Childhood Experiences Acknowledge Connect Universal
If I ever write a book, it will be called 'Bottle Blonde.' Mariella Frostrup
Book Will Write Bottle Blonde Ever
I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute. Mariella Frostrup
Attitude Enthusiasm Childish Down Alice Books Like Falling Very
Joy acts like a trampoline, everything that touches it bouncing right back off it. Mariella Frostrup
Joy Back Everything Bouncing Like Off Trampoline Acts Right Right Back
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