Talulah Riley Quotes

I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.

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.

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

It makes me cry because it means that fewer and fewer people are believing it's cool to want what I want, which is to be married and have kids and love each other in a monogamous, long-lasting relationship.

Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.

I wasn't very ambitious. I really wanted to get married.

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

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.

Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life.

When a woman gets to 30, you ask her about having kids. I don't mind - all my friends are settled with kids, so I can understand people asking, and I even get it from relatives, but I'd be a fool to miss these work opportunities. And there's no time limit. One day I'll find my prince, but at the minute, I'm enjoying kissing a few frogs.

I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

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

The trophy wife must be in her 20s to earn the title 'trophy wife.'

I am hoping this is my year to have children. I understand that I am possibly more European in my views of marriage. I am not going to say I'm not going to get married, but it's not my priority.

When I was a young kid, girls were taught that their role in life was to get married and have children. It was the 1950s. Those were the rules.

If you meet a girl who says: 'Darling, what do you mean? Of course I wear suspenders. I've worn them all my life. I think tights are for old people,' then know this: she's desperate to have kids, she wants you and her to live in the same house as her mum, she never wants to go out and she just wants to lie on your chest for the next 15 years.

Also, I thought the main reason people get married is to have children. And since having kids had never been of interest to me, I didn't think marriage was necessary.

I just always wanted to get married young.

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.

I never found anybody I wanted to spend my life with. People say, "Didn't you want to get married?" Well, sure, but it's not abstract, there has to be someone you want to marry. I'm pretty traditional. Marriage would have to come first, before kids.

At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but as soon as gets one, she wants everything else in the world.

Mum worked for a London dressmaker before she married. When she was forced to give up work after her marriage, she carried on dressmaking for people at home.

There were many years when I didn't even know if I wanted to get married. I don't know if I believe in that institution, really.

I guess that feeling of wanting to settle down and have children will follow when you find the right one.