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 sen….

Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in, external situations cause internal friction, you grow apart and then boun….

Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression..

The point of the feminist movement wasnt simply to set our underwear on fire and muscle into small spaces in the male-dominated workplace, but to cre….

There are more than enough people with serious mental issues who really do need professional help without all the other Toms, Dicks and Harriets rush….

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

We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinn….

There are two ways of approaching your time on this planet: one is to sit around waiting for something to happen that will make sense of your existen….

From Mozambique to Chad, South Africa and Liberia, Sierra Leone to Burkina Faso, feminism is the buzzword for a generation of women determined to cha….

Joy acts like a trampoline, everything that touches it bouncing right back off it..

Since so many romantic comedies vary little in their storyline, the success or failure of such movies depends largely on whether we believe in the re….

Like cars, every relationship requires a bit of an occasional service, and fine-tuning should be compulsory..

Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for..

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 wisd….

The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances..

In romance we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship we tend to do the opposite, avoiding co….

In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style security a….

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….

Far too many girls' and women's romantic relationships are formed around a negation of their own worth and attributes rather than a confirmation of t….

For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality, the romcoms, like hor….

With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades after they themselves were in ….