Quotes by Mariella Frostrup

While the male eye zooms in on a particular element to the exclusion of all else, a womans gaze flickers from one tedious task to the next, to the point where we cant distinguish between the importance of mopping the kitchen floor and achieving world peace.

Mixed messages are just part and parcel of the romantic terrain, and rather than berate yourself for any crossed wires, youd do better to work on your future resilience.

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.

Far too many girls and womens romantic relationships are formed around a negation of their own worth and attributes rather than a confirmation of them.

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

I met Jason on a charity walk in 2001, and we got married on a friends boat in Panama two years later. It was the perfect wedding for two people whod already been married and who werent teenagers.