Megan Phelps-Roper Quotes

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married.

I was a mother's boy.

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though they may be, should continue to live at home until they were married.

My mother was a disciplinarian. She believed that when young girls start to go out with young boys, they get married.

I didn't want to play the wife of some guy my dad's age.

I bet I would make a really good daughter-in-law.

It is a lot to learn, and unique, but it is commonplace here in Atlanta where the man takes care of things and the woman becomes a homemaker, and later on in the relationship, a mother, which isn't the things that I ever considered. I think Cody thought that I would want that for my life since he grew up in that, but that is just not me.

If I dyed my hair, my mother would actually disown me.

Yes, I come from a protective family. I wasn't even allowed to sleep over at a friend's place as a child.

My mother wanted my sister and me to live a normal life. I always picked friends who weren't impressed with my family ties.

My mom said, 'You are reckless, and you need to get married.' And I was like, 'Okay.'

There is no pressure from my family to get married.

I was a threat to a lot of women and to a lot of men. The women cannot forgive me if I remain single and also have a family. But I have a family as well and am raising them. A lot of women only stay in their marriages because of the children so seeing me on my own annoys them.

Damien is Damien. When I don't put him in the squad my mother, who's 84, asks 'why isn't Damien playing?' She kills me about it and that's true

I had a very close family and I couldn't get away with anything.

In 1970, you went to school to find your husband.

When you raise girls, you're raising children for strangers.

I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off!

Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.