Mariella Frostrup famous quotes

03-28-2025

I was told that when you hit forty men stop looking at you. It's true, until you slip on a mini-skirt.
-- Mariella Frostrup

#Naughty #Men #Skirts
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.
-- Mariella Frostrup

#Opposites #Romance #Details
There are more than enough people with serious mental issues who really do need professional help without all the other Toms, Dicks and Harriets rushing to the therapist's couch.
-- Mariella Frostrup

#Rushing #Issues #People
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

#Responsibility #Play #Volunteer
As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.
-- Mariella Frostrup

#Forever #Doers #Suits
It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.
-- Mariella Frostrup

#Despair #Disadvantages #Tots
Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too!
-- Mariella Frostrup

#Book #Reading #Play
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.
-- Mariella Frostrup

#Kids #Trials #Degrees
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

#Cities #Style #Hours
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.
-- Mariella Frostrup

#Believe #Littles #Comedy
With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades after they themselves were in the cradle is a little premature.
-- Mariella Frostrup

#Baby #Couple #Giving
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

#Two #Waiting #Way
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.
-- Mariella Frostrup

#Birthday #Book #Work Out
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

#Feminism #Mozambique #Sierra Leone
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.
-- Mariella Frostrup

#Dream #Motherhood #Reality
Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.
-- Mariella Frostrup

#True Friend #Giving #Challenges
Joy acts like a trampoline, everything that touches it bouncing right back off it.
-- Mariella Frostrup

#Joy #Trampolines
The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.
-- Mariella Frostrup

#Being Human #Advantage #Circumstances
Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.
-- Mariella Frostrup

#Together #Patterns #Causes
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.
-- Mariella Frostrup

#Mistake #Frustration #Choices
Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.
-- Mariella Frostrup

#Self #Elephants #Doubt
Like cars, every relationship requires a bit of an occasional service, and fine-tuning should be compulsory.
-- Mariella Frostrup

#Car #Tuning #Occasional
Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship.
-- Mariella Frostrup

#World #Incompatibility #Reconcile
Placing 'amicable' and 'separation' together creates an oxymoron - we don't usually decide to end a partnership until the very sight of our soon-to-be ex fills us with disgust, misery, agony or a combination of all three.
-- Mariella Frostrup

#Sight #Agony #Together
Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy.
-- Mariella Frostrup

#Baby #Thinking #Careers
Too often we forget that an ideal partner is someone who enhances an already full existence.
-- Mariella Frostrup

#Forget #Partners #Existence
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.
-- Mariella Frostrup

#Girl #Confirmation #Attributes
The point of the feminist movement wasnt 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 ones worth was judged on their take-home salary.
-- Mariella Frostrup

#Sex #Home #Space

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