Wife Vs Mother Quotes

Wherever you find a wife and mother-in-law slugging it out, you'll find a son who's not speaking up to either his mother or his wife. — Harriet Lerner

I'd like to be a wife and mother. I guess I'll know Mr. Right when I meet him. — Marcia Cross

If she lives, she shall be my wedded wife. If she dies
mother, I can't speak of what I shall feel if she dies. His voice was choked in his throat. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Helmer: "Before all else you are a wife and a mother." Nora: "That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being." — Henrik Ibsen

I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

For which cause a man will leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife, and the two shall be one flesh', — Leo Tolstoy

I act, but I am a mother first and wife second. — Annette Bening

O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! — Thomas Hood

The paramount destiny and mission of woman is to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. That is the law of the Creator. — Joseph P. Bradley

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates — Samuel Richardson

I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well. — Gary Sheffield

My mother is my father's wife. And the children of lovers are orphans. — Nancy Horan

I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot be the perfect wife, the perfect mother, and the perfect actor all at the same time. — Blythe Danner

My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother. — Melissa Etheridge

When we got married, the first thing my wife did was put everything under both names - hers and her mother's. — Rodney Dangerfield

I'm in charge of raising a young woman one day, to be a mother and hopefully a wife. — Tionne Watkins

Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain. — Honore De Balzac

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

She was returning home to be the wife of, mother of, First Lady of, but what did that really mean? — Stacy Hawkins Adams

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. — Phyllis Schlafly

If I killed my wife and mother and debauched a thousand women I couldn't go to hell
in fact, I couldn't go to hell if I wanted to. — Bill Foster

A wife's prayers for her husband have a far greater effect on him than anyone else's, even his mother's. (Sorry, Mom.) — Stormie O'martian

That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute. — Mother Jones

Only a jackass ever talks over his affairs with a woman, whether she be his sweetheart, wife, or sister, or mother. — H.L. Mencken

Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, grass, trees, life, and money, and mother earth! — Casper Van Dien

Depend upon it, her mother's voice said sternly in her memory, no prudent man will ever accept a wife who knows more than himself. — Eloisa James

Beloved mother and wife. Without you, all the light is gone. — Ali Standish

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else. — Suzanne Vega

At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person, don't forget you're a mother, don't forget you're a wife, don't forget you're a daughter. — Indra Nooyi