Caroline Knapp Quotes

On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.

For me, having it all doesn't mean having the corner office at work and a penthouse at home if there aren't kids running around as I'm trying to cook my husband something special.

I'd like to someday see myself married to my true love and starting a big family, and at the same time still having an artistic job.

I want lots of kids and I want a garden and I hope to stay married to my husband. I hope to be working in some way that fulfils me.

I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own.

Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.

I've been married 23 years now. Gone from spending all of my time on the road to being a husband and father.

I'm a family guy, I've got a beautiful wife, a beautiful son, and I couldn't be happier.

I think I need to be married. Having a wife and family makes some sense out of all that I do, because I can't make any sense out of 20,000 adoring fans watching me for two hours.

My parents are divorced, and that was the last thing I wanted for myself. I waited until I was 36 to propose, and I'm really proud of that.

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.

A lot of people, sometimes they're so stuck on, 'I gotta get married, I gotta get married.' They forget that the really important thing is to have a healthy home, a healthy family, a healthy environment for your kids and to have everything going in a good, peaceful way.

Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife.

I've been broody since I was 12, but I can't just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.

Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day.

And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right.

I want a family. I see my sister, and she's on her second baby, and I'm like, 'That's success.' Having a family - I can't wait for that.

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

I always knew I was going to be a family man.

I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children.

I want to go back to Brazil, get married, have lots of kids, and just be a couch tomato.

None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.

Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.

I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids.

My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.