Mariella Frostrup Men Quotations

Men want children later, but women can't rely on being able to. So I'm all for scientific advances and the help they can give people.

Men that aren't threatened by opinionated, faintly aggressive women are in a minority.

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.

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.

While we women dilly-dally, making decisions, leaving jobs half done, forgetting where we've put the house keys while we water the Hoover and leave the laundry in the dishwasher, men, like blinkered horses, look straight ahead, oblivious to peripheral vision, where a discarded pile of wet towels might have caught their eye.

I was told that when you hit forty men stop looking at you. It's true, until you slip on a mini-skirt.