I wasn't allowed to be clever when I was young and blonde, but now I am 50 and … - Mariella Frostrup

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Gather all Leaves in the hour of that Planet that governs them.

Mariella Frostrup

I wasn't allowed to be clever when I was young and blonde, but now I am 50 and an old blonde, I am allowed to have gravitas. With wrinkles comes wisdom.

Blonde, Clever, Old, Wrinkles

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Having lived a full and stimulating life before I had my kids, I've relished every minute I've had to spend with them and felt a degree of confidence in dealing with their trials and tribulations to date.

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Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let such negative sentiments rule our lives and dictate choices.

Choices, Frustration, Injustices, Mistake

As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.

Forever, Purpose, Shaping, Species, Suit, World

When the going gets tough, the prospect of delegating half your responsibilities to a willing volunteer, either to play a supporting role or take over the breadwinning, certainly holds allure.

Play, Responsibilities, Responsibility, Volunteer, Willing

It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.

Despair, Easier, Outweigh, Tots

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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

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Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.

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