Quotes by Mariella Frostrup

Mariella Frostrup

As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.

Forever

Purpose

World

Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in, external situations cause internal friction, you grow apart and then bounce back together.

Causes

Patterns

Together

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.

Attributes

Confirmation

Girl

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.

Dream

Motherhood

Reality

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.

Feminism

Mozambique

Sierra Leone

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

Baby

Careers

Thinking

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.

Degrees

Kids

Trials

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

Men

Naughty

Skirts

I wasn’t allowed to be clever when I was young and blonde, but now I am 50 and an old blonde, I am allowed to have gravitas. With wrinkles comes wisdom.

Blonde

Clever

Wrinkles

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.

Opposites

Romance

Zoom

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Advantage

Agony

Anniversary

Attributes

Baby

Being Human

Believe

Birthday

Blonde

Book

Car

Careers

Causes

Challenges

Choices

Circumstances

Cities

Clever

Comedy

Confirmation

Couple

Degrees

Despair

Doubt

Dream

Easier

Elephants

Existence

Feminism

Fine

Forever

Forget

Frustration

Girl

Giving

Home

Hours

Incompatibility

Issues

Joy

Kids

Littles

Men

Mistake

Motherhood

Mozambique

Naughty

Opposites

Partners

Patterns

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Quotes by Mariella Frostrup

Mariella Frostrup

As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.

Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in, external situations cause internal friction, you grow apart and then bounce back together.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I wasn’t allowed to be clever when I was young and blonde, but now I am 50 and an old blonde, I am allowed to have gravitas. With wrinkles comes wisdom.

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.

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