You only need to look at Jane Austen to see how crossed wires can become a defining aspect of romantic life. Then again, if the course of true love ran more smoothly, it would have a terribly detrimental effect on our cache of love stories. Mariella Frostrup Read Quote
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. Mariella Frostrup Read Quote
The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances. Mariella Frostrup Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I know we should aspire to be higher philosophical beings, contemplating the universe and becoming more refined humans, but if all we did was think, then arguably we’d never have invented the wheel. Mariella Frostrup Read Quote
As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes. Mariella Frostrup Read Quote
I can’t sleep in an isolated place without pills, earplugs, and both my children in bed with me for fear of scary, feral characters with a hankering for the wilderness. Mariella Frostrup Read Quote
One of my few childhood memories is as an eight-year-old, refused permission to watch the Hitchcock season on Irish television, sneakily viewing ‘The Birds’ though a crack in the living-room door. It transformed my hitherto perfectly enjoyable half-mile walk to school, down a country lane patrolled by watchful birds, into a terrifying ordeal. Mariella Frostrup Read Quote
It’s a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood almost invariably connect back to childhood experiences. Mariella Frostrup Read Quote
Translating any insights I have for strangers’ lives into positive action in my own has proved a challenge. While I’ve learned a lot about what everyone else is thinking, I fail miserably to use such knowledge in my private relationships. Mariella Frostrup Read Quote
