Deb Caletti Quotes

I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet.

At the beginning, I really wanted to be home with my kid. I was a product of my generation. But in the suburbs, you are very isolated, really alone.

I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.

All I am is a writer and a mom.

In 'Aarathu Sinam', I play a wife and mother. It's a very homely character, quite contrary to what I've done so far.

In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. Married and with two little daughters, I led a life which would have been recognizable to any woman who had led it and to many others who had not.

After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.

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

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

What I really wanted to do, actually, was stay home and be a mom and have some more kids.

Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend Kath, a stylist, puts me into things I'd never dream of. But my real life is very different. It's very, very home-based - an intense domestic life, that's the core of everything.

In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream.

I'm one of those actresses that really enjoys staying home with my children. To be told you've got to get to work, it is just unbelievable what it does to you.

I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.

I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.

Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy.

I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.

When I was little, I didn't have dreams to be an actress or a star; I wanted to be a mom, have a house and a picket fence.

I want to live a normal life - drive my kids to school, have tons of animals running around, be barefoot and pregnant. I want all that.

I wanted to get out of the pictures and stay home so that I could have children.

When we're home, we like to cook and be together and do mom things when we can.

My interests still are my interests. That doesn't make me a bad mother. I think that makes me a really good mother, because when I go and creatively satisfy myself and those interests, I come home satisfied.

I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!

Becoming a mother has taught me to simply things and also to appreciate being at home more.

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.