Laurie Graham Quotes

Marriage has historically, as long as there's been human history, meant a man and a woman in a relationship for life. Once we change that definition, then where does it go from there?

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.

Where I live, the majority of men are married to women their own age.

The traditional family has an intrinsic as well as an instrumental value, and that is the real reason so many conservatives defend it.

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.

I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.

We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong.

I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands.

My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.

I believe in the natural order where the man works and the woman stays home and raises the kids. It's what the people want and what they will get if I'm elected governor.

Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man..

Historically, there has been a clear and essential connection between marriage and responsible procreation and child rearing.

The state does not belong in bedrooms. So I'm not authoritarian. I don't say: 'You shouldn't do this, you must do that.' What I do say is that the state must have a preferred model, and the model that has served us throughout the millennia is marriage - a man and a woman in a union that is generally open to procreation.

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

My upbringing is such that I feel my husband is superior to me and his mother even more superior.

I lived a very, very Middle Eastern life until I was in my early 20s. It was very sheltered.

Our family was like no one else's. My schoolfriends had fathers and grandfathers and uncles who did things, but in my family, women had been the doers.

I think I have done my share of the saas-bahu dramas.

In India, tradition is paramount. Husband-wife relationship is okay. They do not allow girls to go out.

Traditionally, our society has always seen women as homemakers and men as bread-earners. The demarcations are engraved in stone, perhaps.

The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

I believe marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.