Rita Rudner Quotes

Whenever I date a guy, I think, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Family, to me, is most important, and I can't wait to have one of my own, but I am not going to rush into it. I don't want to get a divorce. I want to take my time, do it once and get it right.

I don't want to make any mistakes. My parents have been married for 40 years. I want to stay married.

I don't have a ton of experience, because I date with the intent to marry... It's how I want a family and how I would want someone to treat my daughter.

If you're going to get engaged make sure you've talked to your partner about life together in the years to come.

Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?

Our life is all about the choices we make, and when I was looking for a mate for life, I really was looking for someone who was a family man, somebody who would embrace my girls as much as they were going to embrace me. I guess I just wasn't finished having children yet.

I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Being in a successful marriage is no different than being cast in a successful movie. It's all about who you pick; in that first moment, did you pick the right person? I think you need to pick somebody who's more interested in being married than in getting married.

There is no definitive guidebook on how to pick the right partner, and even if there were, I'm way too dumb to write it.

That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.

If you want to find somebody and you want to be married and you want to have children, don't make it a rock star.

I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility.

The most important thing - and I've said it a hundred times and I'll say it a hundred times - if you marry a man, marry the right one.

My parents have had a love marriage, so I have made it pretty clear to them that I, too, will have a love marriage.

There's a difference... between the kind of woman you would bang and the kind of woman you would marry.

I need to get a wife. But it's hard, you know, it's hard to find a girl you can trust. Some of these girls, they want to go out with you so they can blog about you.

I didn't marry to have children. I married to have a relationship, and I was blessed with one child. I was an only child, too - my mother was smarter than most women today; she just had me.

A lot of relationships have ended for me in my 20s, because I knew that eventually those people would wanna settle down and have kids.

I have never been married. I don't know if I will ever marry, though I hope to. When I am asked why I have not married, I explain that my parents have been happily married for 42 years. The bar feels so very high for that kind of commitment.

I'm 29 years old and, sure, I'm looking to find a wife.

I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that.

The person who I have my child with is going to be the right person.

My husband, after two weeks of dating, asked me, if our relationship were to work out, would I be OK with our first boy being named Ace.