Barbara Tuchman Quotes

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

I love my children, but I don't really want to talk about them. I'm not that much of a freakish middle-aged mother, I'm just very lucky, and there isn't much more to say. I'd like not to be constantly expected to be a spokesman for things that are part of the natural rhythm of a woman's life.

I'm married, I have a couple kids, I've traveled a lot, I've done book tours a lot, I'm happy to stay home and take my kids to school and come to the office.

I want to go back to Brazil, get married, have lots of kids, and just be a couch tomato.

I got married quite early. And then I had a son. I had a family. And this may be hard to believe, but I am a complete family kinda girl.

I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.

Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.

I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.

I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.

I traveled nonstop in 2009, so when my son popped out and my passport expired for a while, I felt more than happy just to be at home here in Canada.

Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.

I wanted to get out of the pictures and stay home so that I could have children.

I'm looking forward to just being a mom and being normal.

I got married and had a baby. Created a human.

But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote.

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.

For me, having it all doesn't mean having the corner office at work and a penthouse at home if there aren't kids running around as I'm trying to cook my husband something special.

I want a family. I see my sister, and she's on her second baby, and I'm like, 'That's success.' Having a family - I can't wait for that.

The Lord has been there from wanting to be a momma, to having a wonderful childhood life and dreaming of having a good motherhood as a child; always wanting to meet a good old country boy and having someone to love as much as I love my husband Roland and having a little boy that is a mixture of the both of us.

I was married by 18 and I had a beautiful little girl.

I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children.

It's no coincidence that I began writing the day my daughter started school. I knew everything I knew before I began to write, but I was raising two children and didn't have the time to get to the typewriter.

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

What I really wanted to do, actually, was stay home and be a mom and have some more kids.

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