Mariella Frostrup Quotes

I am just enjoying my youth but I want to settle down eventually.

Nothing ages you more immediately than being called 'Mrs.'

I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.

Men were never expected to be monogamous.

To me all men are boy-men. I don't know any man that's actually mature.

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

I've always said if a woman is looking for a good husband, she should go for a Jewish man past 60. Jewish men are essentially brought up to love women. Then you rebel against that and become a bit of a bastard. Then at 60, you revert.

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

I'm at a stage in my life when I want a wife and a family.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.

When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of marriage, then is the time to become so involved.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

What we consider typical of the male is a question I ask myself quite often - it's relevant to my life as an actor and as a man.

Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.

I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.

It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.