Linda Evans Quotes

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

My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.

Men are what their mothers made them.

When I was about 12 and first started wearing lipstick, my dad would ask, 'Are you wearing makeup?' I would say back, 'You're wearing more makeup there than I am!'

If I were like your mother, I would be a woman.

I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brother, David, and an older sister, Betty. My father Fred worked in the mills as a textile weaving supervisor, and my mother, Mary, was a housewife.

When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a 'good man' before they are all taken.

I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.

I'm about the only person in my family that's made it to 24 without being married. That's the way it works where I'm from. Most people, if you find someone to marry in high school, you do that, and if you don't find that, then you find someone in college.

She didn't break his heart, but I feel like a man is supposed to be a man, he ain't supposed to be all involved in that. That's why she got sisters and friend for. Just show up with the ring and act right.

I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'

I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.

I'm a proper mummy's boy.

A woman’s good goes to her husband and her bad to her kin.

I was such a Jewish princess. My whole life was leading up to marrying a rich man and living on 48th Street.

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

I feel like I was kind of raised to be mechanical, like, 'Hi, I'm Brooke Hogan. I'm Hulk Hogan's daughter. I like cookies and sunshine.'

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 refused to get married, my parents would be brokenhearted and confused. Like any child close to her parents, I could not watch them suffer.

My mother is a very liberal wife and mother, so there was no peer pressure to marry.

I will get married to a guy of my parents' choice.

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

Although my parents both liked her, they just didn't approve of a same-sex relationship. Nowadays, people say that you must let children be what they are, but when I was growing up, the parents defined the child - and my parents had a definite vision of how they wanted me to be.

Asian parents generally tend to channel their children, especially their daughters, into studying and not sport.

I'm an only child raised by a single mom. She's always been supportive of what I wanted to do.