Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy.

Mariella Frostrup

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

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

I've been accused of riding roughshod over others' emotions, and I admit, when I feel a friend is being over-indulgent, my patience is in short supply.

Mariella Frostrup

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.

Mariella Frostrup

Often, those who bruise easily spend too much time thinking about themselves. I'd go so far as to say that oversensitivity is a privilege of the underoccupied. The majority of people don't have the time to lavish care on emotional wounds - they're too busy getting on with living.

Mariella Frostrup

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

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

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

Too often we forget that an ideal partner is someone who enhances an already full existence.

Mariella Frostrup

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.

Mariella Frostrup

It's perfectly possible to love your toddler but struggle to like them when times are hard.

Mariella Frostrup

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

Many new lovers and spouses struggle to reconcile themselves with their partners' relationship history, but it's an insecurity I left behind in my 20s.

Mariella Frostrup

Personally, I think there's a lot to recommend being friends with your ex, and I'm glad to admit that I'm living proof of its possibility.

Mariella Frostrup

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.

Mariella Frostrup

While the male eye zooms in on a particular element to the exclusion of all else, a woman's gaze flickers from one tedious task to the next, to the point where we can't distinguish between the importance of mopping the kitchen floor and achieving world peace.

Mariella Frostrup

Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship.

Mariella Frostrup

For many, long-term friendships, rather than family ties, are the foundations for sustainable lives.

Mariella Frostrup

Like cars, every relationship requires a bit of an occasional service, and fine-tuning should be compulsory.

Mariella Frostrup

Mariella Frostrup Quotes

Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy.

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.

I would go out with people who really didn't like me very much and then wonder why we weren't getting married!

I've been accused of riding roughshod over others' emotions, and I admit, when I feel a friend is being over-indulgent, my patience is in short supply.

Often, those who bruise easily spend too much time thinking about themselves. I'd go so far as to say that oversensitivity is a privilege of the underoccupied. The majority of people don't have the time to lavish care on emotional wounds - they're too busy getting on with living.

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.

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.

What an unappealing responsibility that is to lumber any prospective lover with: the need to be a saviour, not simply an equal partner.

Too often we forget that an ideal partner is someone who enhances an already full existence.

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.

It's perfectly possible to love your toddler but struggle to like them when times are hard.

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.

Many new lovers and spouses struggle to reconcile themselves with their partners' relationship history, but it's an insecurity I left behind in my 20s.

Personally, I think there's a lot to recommend being friends with your ex, and I'm glad to admit that I'm living proof of its possibility.

While the male eye zooms in on a particular element to the exclusion of all else, a woman's gaze flickers from one tedious task to the next, to the point where we can't distinguish between the importance of mopping the kitchen floor and achieving world peace.

Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship.

For many, long-term friendships, rather than family ties, are the foundations for sustainable lives.

Like cars, every relationship requires a bit of an occasional service, and fine-tuning should be compulsory.