Lee Radziwill Quotes

What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.

I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it's not where it begins and ends.

In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.

I'm happy going home early and working out and just being a mother and being a wife.

Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well.

I believe that all women should have children. I think women are made to have children and to be mothers. I also think women have to have an identity outside the home.

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 don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.

Most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they were sold a bill of goods at college and by the media.

Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood.

The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.

I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.

I'm looking forward to being a mom and a wife and a business owner.

I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years, and I was really casting about, thinking, 'What am I going to do?' My husband's view of it was, 'Stay home... We'll have more children; you'll love this.' And I was very restless about it.

The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life.... The paramount destiny and mission of women are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. This is the law of the Creator.

Women who maintain jobs outside their homes … weaken family life, endanger their own marital happiness, rob themselves of man’s protective capabilities, and by consequence decrease the number of children. The principal evil in women’s work is that it alienates the life of the wife from the life of the husband …

Could it be that women in the United States have become too independent – that they have followed the lead of women like Margaret Sanger by neglecting family life for career?.

To have or not to have kids, when to have them, and whether we working women can 'have it all' has been debated, discussed, and examined since the washing machine and the TV dinner began to free up many mothers to even consider leaving the home as a viable option.

I haven't really given much thought to the whole 'working mother' thing.

It seemed that I was more interested in raising my children, not in pursuing my husbands.

I am a hands-on mother, so I take long gaps between films.

I want my girls to grow up learning that it is important their mum worked like a man.

I have made a choice to fully enjoy my kids and this particular season of my life. It's a very conscious, powerful decision. In some ways, it takes more guts to buck the financial rewards and adulation that come from a professional career to pursue something so culturally undervalued as at-home motherhood.

Every mom I know, whether they're working in the home or working outside the home, they're super women to me.

I like a little chivalry; I like to receive flowers. I like taking care of a son and a husband, and in my judgment, those who recoil from these things don't know what they're missing.