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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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If I ever write a book, it will be called 'Bottle Blonde.'
Mariella Frostrup
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As for tweeting and texting: impassioned discussions, particularly when they're intimate, don't work in abbreviated script messages. No relationship should begin or end in 140 characters.
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Men that aren't threatened by opinionated, faintly aggressive women are in a minority.
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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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The point of the feminist movement wasn't simply to set our underwear on fire and muscle into small spaces in the male-dominated workplace, but to create a world where the contribution of both sexes was equally valued and no one's worth was judged on their take-home salary.
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Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy.
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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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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 my door with sacks of cash.
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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.
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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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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I've never once resented the fact that I couldn't go out because of my kids.
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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.
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While we women dilly-dally, making decisions, leaving jobs half done, forgetting where we've put the house keys while we water the Hoover and leave the laundry in the dishwasher, men, like blinkered horses, look straight ahead, oblivious to peripheral vision, where a discarded pile of wet towels might have caught their eye.
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When a father of a daughter dies, you elevate them. And you sort of deify them.
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I was raised a socialist by two very socialist parents, and I still feel very animated about socialist principles.
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It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.
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Since so many romantic comedies vary little in their storyline, the success or failure of such movies depends largely on whether we believe in the relationship of the protagonists.
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Joy acts like a trampoline, everything that touches it bouncing right back off it.
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We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.
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Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow.
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Too often we forget that an ideal partner is someone who enhances an already full existence.
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Fridays are always movie night at our flat in Kensington, West London.
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In my late teens and early twenties, I thought having children was possibly the most irresponsible thing you could do because I thought that the world was a dreadful place; I thought the sooner we all got off the planet, the better.
Mariella Frostrup