Mariella Frostrup Quotes
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I don't want my daughter to think she has to dress like Beyonce!
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I would go out with people who really didn't like me very much and then wonder why we weren't getting married!
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If I was a man, I don't know if I'd settle down long before I was 50.
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I can't sleep in an isolated place without pills, earplugs, and both my children in bed with me for fear of scary, feral characters with a hankering for the wilderness.
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If I was going to write something, I'd need to stop for three months and just see if I had any thoughts in there.
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Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship.
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For many, long-term friendships, rather than family ties, are the foundations for sustainable lives.
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Having lived a full and stimulating life before I had my kids, I've relished every minute I've had to spend with them and felt a degree of confidence in dealing with their trials and tribulations to date.
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When I last looked, there weren't queues of eager guys under 40 hanging outside single ladies' doors begging them to give up work and have their babies. It takes two to tango and the same number, without medical help, to make a child.
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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.
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If I ever write a book, it will be called 'Bottle Blonde.'
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Saturday and Sunday mornings are the only time the children are allowed to turn on the television.
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Far too many girls' and women's romantic relationships are formed around a negation of their own worth and attributes rather than a confirmation of them.
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For many young women, the dream of independence and a home of their own is a tantalising goal, while a lifetime devoted solely to catering for another person's needs would be hard to countenance.
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I have had demanding jobs since I was 18 years old. I have had two sick days in all my working life.
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I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them.
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As we mature, there are people with whom we run out of steam, but there are also those with whom a little straight talking would prove rewarding.
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First, I was a glacial blonde doing music programmes. Then I was the film kind of sexy bird late at night. It was frustrating like I guess it's frustrating for everyone who is not fully employing their talents.
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In person, George Clooney lives up to all your expectations.
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Girls have a tendency to take responsibility for romantic misinterpretations, when often it's men whose perfectly honed emotional inscrutability makes life more complicated than it should be.
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As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.
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Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.
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Normally, the thin-skinned have an endless array of excuses for why their workaday interactions are so much harder to bear for them than for the rest of us. In the eyes of the self-suffering, they are being victimised, used and always abused, when they're actually experiencing exactly the same body blows as the rest of us.
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In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.