119 Quotes by Mariella Frostrup

I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute.

I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them.

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.

If I was going to write something, I'd need to stop for three months and just see if I had any thoughts in there.

Girls have a tendency to take responsibility for romantic misinterpretations, when often it's men whose perfectly honed emotional inscrutability makes life more complicated than it should be.

Fridays are always movie night at our flat in Kensington, West London.

I don't want my daughter to think she has to dress like Beyonce!

Had Elizabeth Bennet known how wildly Darcy's heart beat for her, 'Pride and Prejudice' would barely have made it into a short story. Their torturously slow-burning romance is a classic example of how men and women still struggle to communicate the most basic of emotions.

Kids are like glue: they can bond together, unlikely companions, even when there is little else left to maintain the connection.