Mariella Frostrup Quotes

I've always wanted two kids. I've always wanted a girl and a boy.

I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands.

If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each.

Fertility should be shared between a husband and wife.

If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.

We go to college, live together or marry, and have kids - often with little more thought to the daily routines of raising children than our grandparents gave them, when women by and large stayed at home.

When I was a young kid, girls were taught that their role in life was to get married and have children. It was the 1950s. Those were the rules.

I have three boys right now. Obviously, I would love a girl. But we're going to see what happens naturally.

I think it's quite a big decision for women to have children. In our time, I don't think we thought so much about it. We just went and had them and of course, life is not fun-filled and not complete if you don't have them. It's a wonderful thing when you think about it.

Unless women have, from the moment of birth, socialization for, expectations of, and preparation for a viable significant alternative to motherhood . . . women will continue to want and reproduce too many children.

Women today have choices and demand choices, choices to have kids or not and the reproductive technology thereto. And it is a fact [that] most women continue to chose to have children.

Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

I tried immediately to have a baby because I was so afraid not to have a baby in my life.

I haven't really made up my mind concretely about having kids.

It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.

Research indicates that most women want their man to earn more than they do.

It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.

The life of a female politician makes it hard to combine personal life and work, but I think it is almost a patriotic duty to have children.

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.

Just because you can have a baby, it doesn't mean you should. Especially without planning for one or getting married first.

When a woman gets to 30, you ask her about having kids. I don't mind - all my friends are settled with kids, so I can understand people asking, and I even get it from relatives, but I'd be a fool to miss these work opportunities. And there's no time limit. One day I'll find my prince, but at the minute, I'm enjoying kissing a few frogs.

We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?

We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.