Mariella Frostrup Quotes
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The more brutal it gets in the working world, the more appealing the prospect of having someone at home creating a sanctuary becomes. Increasingly couples, particularly with children, are making that tough choice, with one or other partner electing to embrace domestic duties while the other brings home the cash.
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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 have a producer friend who despairs that I come across as rather frosty and never show the real me, and she might have a point.
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I met Jason on a charity walk in 2001, and we got married on a friend's boat in Panama two years later. It was the perfect wedding for two people who'd already been married and who weren't teenagers.
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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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What an unappealing responsibility that is to lumber any prospective lover with: the need to be a saviour, not simply an equal partner.
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For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality, the romcoms, like horoscopes, swiftly lost their allure.
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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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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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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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Nothing can prepare you for the all-consuming nature of motherhood, and I am very aware of my good fortune, as I spent years fretting about whether I'd ever meet anyone to have a baby with.
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Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship.
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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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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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You're allowed to have gravitas when you've got the wrinkles to prove it, but not when you're attractive and younger - or, at least, you have to fight really hard to prove you're capable of productive thought.
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The idea of exposing the British public to the full breadth of my personality isn't a good one.
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Finding extracurricular activities with your husband that are unrelated to children, family and work is a priority.
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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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Men that aren't threatened by opinionated, faintly aggressive women are in a minority.
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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.
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Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let such negative sentiments rule our lives and dictate choices.
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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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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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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.