Quotes About A Wife And Mother

#1. My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I'm the quintessential French chef.

Jacques Pepin

#2. Your identity should not be fully defined by what you do, by being a manager, a wife, a mother of children or a computer programmer

Sunday Adelaja

#3. Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.

Margaret Mead

#4. 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.

William, Saroyan

#5. He reproached his wife with her inattention, her habitual neglect of the children. If it was not a mother's place to look after children, whose on earth was it? He himself had his hands full with his brokerage business.

Kate Chopin

#6. Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's third wife Day.

Jay Leno

#7. A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

Chanakya

#8. I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.

Rachel Corrie

#9. 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.

Indra Nooyi

#10. Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife.

Anne Northup

#11. I know you think I should be home taking care of my family. That maybe I'd be distracted or I wouldn't be as committed as the rest of you, but who's more committed: the person with something to lose, or the people who've got nothing left?

Bill Blais

#12. How could I have been a wife, a mother and a singer? Who takes care of the piccolini when you go around the world? Your children would not call you 'Mama,' but 'Renata.'

Renata Tebaldi

#13. 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.

Bill Foster

#14. 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.

Maurice Gibb

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

Rodney Dangerfield

#16. I suppose really I was a wife, a mother and a business woman, and then suddenly catapulted into this kind of world of craziness where it's ... there's good sides and there's bad sides ... I wouldn't kind of turn the clock back and take another direction.

Lisa Vanderpump

#17. 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'.

Sophie Kinsella

#18. If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Anonymous

#19. I can't tell you what will happen over the next four years. But I can only stand here tonight, as a wife, a mother, a grandmother, an American, and make you this solemn commitment: This man will not fail. This man will not let us down. This man will lift up America!

Ann Romney

#20. I always did what someone else wanted me to do. I've always been someone's daughter or mother or wife. I've never just been me.

Cheryl Strayed

#21. I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.

Carre Otis

#22. It strikes me that I need to throw out the dictionary the world gave me about what it means to be a mother, a wife, a person of faith, an artist, and a woman and write my own.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#23. The way I look at - speaking as a woman - I understand what it means to be a daughter, and to be a wife, and to be a mother, and also to be a career woman. The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.

Margaret Chan

#24. I made numerous attempts to find a way to do it all, to be a creative singer, songwriter, producer, and to be the mother, daughter, sister, lover, wife. And the thing about music is, with me, that she's a harsh mistress. She does not come to me in the midst of stress.

Anita Baker

#25. Mother, before God," I say, my voice shaking with tears, "I swear that I have to believe that there is more for me in life than being wife to one man after another, and hoping not to die in childbirth!

Philippa Gregory

#26. There is so much obligatory generosity to being a good mother, a good wife, a good friend. Solitude is an acceptable form of selfishness.

Anna Quindlen

#27. I'm going to end up like my mother. She left it too late to remember who she actually was before she became a wife.

Jojo Moyes

#28. 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.

Jessica Lange

#29. A man who is a good lover to his wife is his children's best friend. ... Child care is play to a woman who is happy. And only a man can make a woman happy. In deepest truth, a father's first duty to his children is to make their mother feel fulfilled as a woman.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#30. Move on, sky is not limit, wind can touch you, water can dip you, mother will care you, wife will nurture you and above all, oneday you will see your child following, up above the sky; you became a star, twinkling, watching and waiting to come back again, on earth.

Santosh Kalwar

#31. 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.

Josh Kopelman

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

Ree Drummond

#33. How long has it been since you've slept?" Chase asked.
"I sleep." Not much.
"How long since you've slept more than an hour here and there?"
"I do not require a mother."
Chase lifted a brow. "Perhaps a wife, then?"
Bourne wished Chase were in the damn ring, too.

Sarah MacLean

#34. [The incestuous father...] may be unconsciously seeking revenge against either his wife or his mother for what he considers a variety of emotional crimes against him.

Susan Forward

#35. Even-money that my liver lasts through my wife's metamorphosis to my mother-in-law.

Tim Heaton

#36. It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.

Honore De Balzac

#37. Every woman is a gift when she becomes a daughter, Every woman is beautiful when she becomes a lover, Every woman is special when she becomes a wife, Every woman is a god when she becomes a Mother

Vivek Thangaswamy

#38. The daunting task of being a mother, a wife, and an independent career or professional person is really taxing.

Tom Brokaw

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

Lenny Bruce

#40. My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and my parents are the most extraordinary father and mother.

Akhil Sharma

#41. Males and females are unique and different, because their brains are different. There's not a limitation on girls. My grandmother was very strong, and so was my mother. She also knew what it meant to be a woman and wife and was very successful at it.

James Dobson

#42. I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.

Siobhan Fahey

#43. They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.

Patricia Richardson

#44. I am not my husband's wife, nor my child's mother...who, then, am I?

Rasana Atreya

#45. A foolish man enjoys the company of prostitutes;
a wise man enjoys the company of his wife.
The mother of a prudent son will rejoice;
the father of a mindless son will groan.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#46. A business career for a woman and her need for a woman's life as wife and mother, are not enemies at all, unless we make them so, but may be the closest and most co-operative friends and supporter of each other.

Hortense Odlum

#47. My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.

John Barrymore

#48. 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.

Farhan Akhtar

#49. Christian wife! Follow in the footsteps of the ideal of all womanhood, the Blessed Mother of God; in joy and in sorrow, she will be your advocate at the throne of her Son.

John Vianney

#50. When a husband and wife both are employed full-time, the mother does 40 percent more child care and about 30 percent more housework than the father.1 A 2009 survey found that only 9 percent of people in dual-earner marriages said that they shared housework, child care, and breadwinning evenly.

Sheryl Sandberg

#51. A man who loves his mother too much is someone who can never love his wife enough.

Adam Ross

#52. When I need it, I can call bitterness around me like mail armor, every thought a knot of steel, shielding the tenderness I have learned to hide as a daughter, mother, wife, and queen among warriors.

Susan Fraser King

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

Tori Amos

#54. 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.

Genie Francis

#55. A child cannot be free if his/her mother is not free. A husband cannot be free if his wife is not free. The society is nothing if women are nothing.

Manal Al-Sharif

#56. 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.

Kim Cattrall

#57. A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.

Joyce Cary

#58. I'm constantly struggling. You know, the stories that I feel like I could cover, do the work that I want to do and being a mother. That's really where my struggle is - and being a wife and having a life - and for me it's really hard to find that balance. I'm always struggling to find that balance.

Lynsey Addario

#59. Off fall the wife, the mother, the lover, the teacher, and the violent artist takes over. I am I alone. I belong to no one but myself. I mate with no one but the spirit. I own no land, have no kin, no friend or enemy. I have no road but this one.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

#60. The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law.

John Grisham

#61. I went from my mother to my wife. And to this day, I can't bear to be alone.

Dick Van Dyke

#62. There is something special about unions of husband and wife. Unless we bring men and women together, children will not have mothers and fathers.

Carrie Prejean

#63. What was that you were saying about my mother?"
"She likes big dicks." Deacon slammed him hard in the gut, knocking him to the floor. "So does your wife.

Mercy Celeste

#64. Several millennia ago, the words were written that a man should leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. It was not our idea; it was God's idea.

Mike Pence

#65. Ain't too young for nothing." "In some societies that would be true. Different places. Different times. You'd be old enough to be a wife and mother.

Karen Marie Moning

#66. 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.

Barbara Holland

#67. Say to them, O father, O mother, O wife, O brother, O friend, I have lived with you after appearances hitherto. Henceforward I am the truth's.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#68. 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.

Gary Sheffield

#69. My wife said, 'Can my mother come down for the weekend?' So I said, 'Why?' And she said, 'Well, she's been up on the roof two weeks already.'

Bob Monkhouse

#70. No matter what happens, please remember that I love you, hridaya patni. Promise me that you'll remember."
"It's a pet name our father used to call our mother. It means ... wife of my heart.

Colleen Houck

#71. A person like me who has grown up in a mixed culture ought to be spiritual. My mother is a Catholic, my father is a Muslim, and my wife is a Hindu. Personally, I feel spirituality is about being clear-hearted. It involves a sense of connection with the divine.

Emraan Hashmi

#72. 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

Maria V. Snyder

#73. 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.

Phyllis Schlafly

#74. I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the greater the man is, the grander he is, the more he thinks of mother, wife and daughter.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#75. Sixty years is cause enough to sing
In celebration of a gentle life!
To the mother and the wife,
Taking pleasure in what love might bring,
Yearning for what's worth the treasuring.

Nick Gordon

#76. 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.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#77. I act, but I am a mother first and wife second.

Annette Bening

#78. I have always considered my career self and my personal self as two different and separate people. There's a Jayne Mansfield at home, a wife and devoted mother, and there's Jayne the sex symbol, which is my career. I have always kept them completely apart and separate.

Jayne Mansfield

#79. Cynthia Lennon, the first wife of former Beatle John Lennon and the mother of singer Julian Lennon, died April 1 at her home in Spain. She was 75.

Anonymous

#80. Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist without solitude. I couldn't write until my youngest child went to school, and then I began - the first morning - and I've never stopped.

Jane Gardam

#81. I knew that my niece was working nearby with some bank, so my wife rang up the mother and the mother called back to say that shes just called up to say she was alright.

Lee Kuan Yew

#82. A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at home he will permit his aged mother to carry pails of water and armfuls of wood, or his wife to lug a twenty-pound baby, hour after hour, without ever offe

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#83. He took one look at me and knew I would be his best friend, his partner, his wife, and the mother of his children. He saw more in me in one glance than I'd seen in myself my whole life.

Alexa Riley

#84. I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.

Mary MacLane

#85. 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!

Casper Van Dien

#86. My wife complained the other day that our kitchen clock almost killed her mother. It fell seconds after where she had been sitting. That damn clock always was slow.

Various

#87. A girl has the power to go forward in her life. And she's not only a mother, she's not only a sister, she's not only a wife. But a girl has the - she should have an identity. She should be recognized and she has equal rights as a boy.

Malala Yousafzai

#88. I'd have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister
anything a woman can be to a man. The idea of you is part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me.

Willa Cather

#89. My dad, who my mom always refers to as DH for Darling Husband, was protrayed as a 'let's look on the bright side of things' kind of guy, the pillar my everbumbling mother leans on in times of distress.

Frances O'Roark Dowell

#90. I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn't writing as much and I didn't miss it.

Helen Slater

#91. As a child, my wife hated her school and wished she could leave. Years later, when she was in her twenties, she disclosed this unhappy fact to her parents, and her mother was aghast: 'But darling, why didn't you come to us and tell us?' Lalla's reply is my text for today: 'But I didn't know I could.

Richard Dawkins

#92. You will not easily get a man to believe that his carnal love for the woman he has made his wife is as high a love as that he feltfor his mother or sister.

D.H. Lawrence

#93. Father is my Defender (Hero). Mother is my Teacher. Sister is my Counselor. Wife is my Savior. Children are my Fighters. Then what is the role of my Friend? Friend is my Motivator in life.

Sandeep Kumar

#94. When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.

Patricia Cornwell

#95. 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.

Mary Livermore

#96. A mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife.

Leah Ward Sears

#97. But one on earth is better than the wife; that is the mother.

Leopold Schefer

#98. In addition to suffering her husband's scathing portrayal of a shrewish wife and mother, Nana Victoria had to sit not more than two seats away from the transsexual wrestler!)

John Irving

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

Gautama Buddha

#100. Distrust won't do good to you.
But still if you ever do.

Doubt you husband,
Maybe doubt your wife.
But never suspect,
your kid's father,
or the mother of your child.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber