Quotes about Wife and Mother

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady. Votes: 4

I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother. Votes: 4

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother. Votes: 4

My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother. Votes: 4

Love and honesty are the things that make a good wife and mother. Votes: 4

Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy. Votes: 4

I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either? Votes: 4

Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole. Votes: 4

In my life as a wife and mother, I'm always conscious of my desire to be present. Votes: 3

I'd like to be a wife and mother. I guess I'll know Mr. Right when I meet him. Votes: 3

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother. Votes: 3

I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It's very reclusive. Votes: 3

The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready. Votes: 3

Wherever you find a wife and mother-in-law slugging it out, you'll find a son who's not speaking up to either his mother or his wife. Votes: 3

I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously. Votes: 3

What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother. Votes: 3

Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every other. Votes: 3

The paramount destiny and mission of woman is to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. That is the law of the Creator. Votes: 3

a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral. Votes: 3

If I killed my wife and mother and debauched a thousand women I couldn't go to hell--in fact, I couldn't go to hell if I wanted to. Votes: 3

I was terrible at interviews, lost in my own loss of identity and struggling at home as a wife and mother. It was a household that preferred me working, which threw me off completely. Votes: 3

I've led three lives: the acting part, wife and mother - which is a career - and international relations. I'm proud of my career, the first one, and I'm proud of the other two, too. Votes: 3

Dixie Carter was a goddess. The kind of wife and mother that every mother hopes their daughter will become and the kind of friend that is absolutely irreplaceable. She loved fiercely and was adored in return. Votes: 3

There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the members of nearly all other occupations so continuous and so permeating as that of the working housewife and mother. Votes: 3

A lot of women want to be married and have kids one day, but before we get there, it's so important to establish who you are, find yourself, and live in that for a minute before you become somebody's wife and mother. Votes: 3

I had been a happy normal wife and mother in Orange County until ten years ago, when I was attacked by an evil vampire... and turned into one myself. It's made my life since gross and scary and, let's face it, weird. Votes: 3

As a mother I think you often get so caught up in trying to take care of everyone else that you forget to take care of yourself. But I'm a much better wife and mother when I take the time to take care of myself. Votes: 3

For the sake of the sons - and even for the son's future wives - a woman must keep a part of her mind and heart entirely for herself. Every family is better off with a wife and mother who can astonish and occasionally dewilder. Votes: 3

My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a light engineer, and a then a publican. My mum was a traditional housewife and mother. They showed my brother and I unconditional love. Votes: 3

My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa, he expected her to give up her career as a champion ballroom dancer and become a good wife and mother, which she dutifully did. Votes: 3

I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my agent called and said a producer named Paul Elliott from E&B productions, the biggest panto company in the country at the time, wanted to meet me I agreed. Votes: 3

I am not Superwoman. The reality of my daily life is that I'm juggling a lot of balls in the air trying to be a good wife and mother, trying to be the prime-ministerial consort at home and abroad, barrister and charity worker, and sometimes one of the balls gets dropped. Votes: 3

Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it also did my gay brother and my lesbian sister. Our younger sister is the perfect Jewish-American wife and mother, and is fiercely proud of that fact. Votes: 3

I just look for interesting supporting-biggish supporting parts, and try to do one a year, and that's my limit. Some women can do it and that's fantastic, but I can't. You make choices as a wife and mother, don't you? You can't have it all. I don't care what it looks like. Votes: 3

While the secular world pushes woman to find her identity in herself as a sex object, the popular teachings in the Church, equally mistaken, encourage woman to find her identity in her roles as wife and mother rather than in her status as a person in Christ, a daughter complete in Him. Votes: 3

I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was while I was this that doubt struck me, and while I was in the guarded circle of the home, with no dream of outside work or outside liberty, that I lost all faith in Christianity. Votes: 3

Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success. Votes: 3

The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at the dead feminists. It is the joke that Freudian thought played on living women, twisting the memory of the feminists into the man-eating phantom of the feminine mystique, shriveling the very wish to be more than just a wife and mother. Votes: 3

I was very proud to be Mrs. Curtis Amy. My thing in life when I married Curtis Amy was being Mrs. Curtis Amy. Career was fine, but I was enthralled with being Curtis' wife. That was very important to me back then, and that's always important to a young lady from New Orleans. That's our upbringing: to be a wonderful wife and mother first. Votes: 3

In the early forties and fifties almost everybody "had about enough to live on," and young ladies dressed well on a hundred dollars a year. The daughters of the richest man in Boston were dressed with scrupulous plainness, and the wife and mother owned one brocade, which did service for several years. Display was considered vulgar. Now, alas! only Queen Victoria dares to go shabby. Votes: 3

Feminism has nothing at all to do with being 'feminine.' Feminine means accentuating the womanly attributes that make women deliciously different from men. The feminine woman enjoys her right to be a woman. She has a positive outlook on life. She knows she is a person with her own identity and that she can seek fulfillment in the career of her choice, including that of traditional wife and mother. Votes: 3

My deal is that I pay more attention to whatever job I have than the relationships I have. Now, if I had considered my job to be a wife and mother, then I would have been pretty good at it. But I didn't consider it a job. I thought it was like brushing your teeth - it's not fun, it's just something you do to keep your teeth from falling out. Votes: 3

I act, but I am a mother first and wife second. Votes: 2

A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician. Votes: 2

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law. Votes: 2

Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife. Votes: 2

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates. Votes: 2

My wife came into my life, and my mother still wanted to be the boss. Votes: 2

I'm happy going home early and working out and just being a mother and being a wife. Votes: 2

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else. Votes: 2

My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and my parents are the most extraordinary father and mother. Votes: 2

I wish I had been a better mother and a more compassionate and understanding wife in both of my marriages. Votes: 2

My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere. Votes: 2

I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me. Votes: 2

Wife-Mother-Actress-Author The world will remember. Votes: 0

Never paint your wife or your mother. Votes: 0

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault. Votes: 0

The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law. Votes: 0

I want to be a good wife, a good mother, a good person. Votes: 0

But one on earth is better than the wife; that is the mother. Votes: 0

Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one. Votes: 0

I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me. Votes: 0

God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife. Votes: 0

Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day. Votes: 0

A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber. Votes: 0

A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero Votes: 0

Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. Votes: 0

You cannot be the perfect wife, the perfect mother, and the perfect actor all at the same time. Votes: 0

I fully intend to make amends and get back to being a good mother, wife, daughter, and friend. Votes: 0

I went from my mother to my wife. And to this day, I can't bear to be alone. Votes: 0

I'm in charge of raising a young woman one day, to be a mother and hopefully a wife. Votes: 0

I guess I define myself as a mother, a wife, kind of a nutty person. A good person. Votes: 0

You can always tell how a man will treat his wife by the way he treats his mother. Votes: 0

Is it not so that a son what is bad to his mother is bad to his wife? Votes: 0

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead. Votes: 0

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really. Votes: 0

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really." Votes: 0

I'm a wife and a mother. I don't want to be immature; I have to be ready at all times. Votes: 0

She was returning home to be the wife of, mother of, First Lady of, but what did that really mean? Votes: 0

I tell ya, it's tough to save a buck. Right now I'm supporting two fighters. My wife and her mother. Votes: 0

In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe. Votes: 0

A mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife. Votes: 0

My wife Neelam is a North Indian, so she will make North Indian food, while my mother will make Bengali food. Votes: 0

A wife's prayers for her husband have a far greater effect on him than anyone else's, even his mother's. (Sorry, Mom.) Votes: 0

Only a jackass ever talks over his affairs with a woman, whether she be his sweetheart, wife, or sister, or mother. Votes: 0

When we got married, the first thing my wife did was put everything under both names - hers and her mother's. Votes: 0

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. Votes: 0

My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever. Votes: 0

My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. Votes: 0

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. Votes: 0

I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate. Votes: 0

You know you've built a product that can hit the mainstream when your wife, your father, and your mother-in-law can get involved. Votes: 0

I've stepped more into my womanhood, I'm a mother now, I'm having a beautiful relationship as a wife and as a friend. Votes: 0

I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city. Votes: 0

I view my wife as my lover, and we have a bond that goes beyond words like wife or girlfriend or mother. Votes: 0

My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General. Votes: 0

A father who is a chronic debtor, an adulterous mother, a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies in one's own home. Votes: 0

Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy. Votes: 0

Like most of us, I'm used to juggling about 52 roles in life. Wife. Mother. Sister. Friend. Author. Sometimes I feel a bit 'multiple-personality'. Votes: 0

Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind. Votes: 0

I'm proud of being a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister, and a lover and a friend We're all God's children. Votes: 0

To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing. Votes: 0

[On women's role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation. Votes: 0

Another relative?" Valek asked. A broad smile stretched Moon Man's lips. "Yes. I am her mother's uncle's wife's third cousin." --Valek and Moon Man Votes: 0

Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, grass, trees, life, and money, and mother earth! Votes: 0

Obliging a lady with respect is to pay tribute to her womanhood in elevating society from her role as a daughter, sister, mother and wife. Votes: 0

Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain. Votes: 0

I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well. Votes: 0

Every time I look into the mirror, I want to see a man whose mother, sister, wife and daughter are proud to call their own. Votes: 0

The wife's Mother said, ‘When you're dead, I'll dance in your grave.’ I said: ‘Good, I'm being buried at sea’. Votes: 0

I won't talk about someone's mother. I won't talk about their girlfriend or their wife, but if you have a deformity, I would talk about that. Votes: 0

My second wife, the mother of one of my sons, died of murder. I was not with her, but I could have saved her. I think. Votes: 0

I actually think 'Sex and the City' helped share how complicated it all is, to be a wife, a mother, and working, and a sexual being. Votes: 0

I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth. Votes: 0

At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person, don't forget you're a mother, don't forget you're a wife, don't forget you're a daughter. Votes: 0

We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother. Votes: 0

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife. Votes: 0

In the career of female fame, there are few prizes to tie obtained which can vie with the obscure state of a beloved wife or a happy mother. Votes: 0

Helmer: "Before all else you are a wife and a mother." Nora: "That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being." Votes: 0

You live and die according to what goes on in yourself, which no one else can even begin to know, not even father, mother, wife, son, or daughter. Votes: 0

Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too small ever to contain the experience. Votes: 0

No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu's mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry. Votes: 0

I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman. Votes: 0

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art. Votes: 0

I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman. Votes: 0

We don't like to say that [my wife was Jewish] because her mother was Jewish, which means she was Jewish. So don't imply that my wife was a shikse. Votes: 0

I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up. Votes: 0

I have had the experience common to many women, of needing to define myself and to find my self-esteem as a person, not simply as somebody's wife or mother. Votes: 0

Women have always ruled my life, be it my mother, my wife, my assistant, or my daughter, so I don't really fight with them. I relinquished control years ago. Votes: 0