Maryanne Trump Barry Quotes

I'm insanely girly. I like having the door opened for me. I want to cook dinner for my boyfriend. And I can't wait to have babies.

I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that.

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

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

I know it sounds old-fashioned, but I like the idea of women taking care of their men.

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.

Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well.

I believe that all women should have children. I think women are made to have children and to be mothers. I also think women have to have an identity outside the home.

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.

Even though I would love a little girl for me, personally, I love being a mom to boys.

I think it can be hard for any man to sometimes be upstaged by his wife. So when I'm home, I work very hard to be Todd's wife and Jade's mother. I have no problem going back to those traditional roles. I try to be Giada, the young girl that he met 20 years ago and fell in love with.

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

It seemed that I was more interested in raising my children, not in pursuing my husbands.

I believe one should be a woman at home.

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

I was so thrilled that I was having a girl, because I just am so girly myself, but I think the teenage years are going to be very interesting.

I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.

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

The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

I would be ready to become a dad if I was with the right person. I'd like a boy, though. Because they're in charge.

I may discuss love, and I don't mind if two men fall in love, fine. Two women, fine. But I flinch when I think of two Jewish women getting together and having a child because the idea of having two Jewish mothers makes my head explode. I have one; I couldn't handle two.

Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips.