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

I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

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…

— Harriet Lerner

I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It's very reclusive.

— Tori Amos

When society is rightly organized, the wife and mother will have time, wish and will to grow intellectually, and will know that the limits…

— Susan B. Anthony

a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only…

— Barbara Holland

Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy.

— Patsy Cline

Love and honesty are the things that make a good wife and mother.

— Jada Pinkett Smith

For the sake of the sons - and even for the son's future wives - a woman must keep a part of her mind…

— Pam Brown

In my life as a wife and mother, I'm always conscious of my desire to be present.

— Dani Shapiro

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

— Marcia Cross

Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother,…

— Kristi Yamaguchi

... a business career for a woman and her need for a woman's life as wife and mother, are not enemies at all, unless…

— Hortense Odlum

Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks…

— Mary Livermore

I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.

— Mary MacLane

Without religion, man is an atheist, woman is a monster. As daughter, sister, wife and mother, she holds in her hands, under God, the…

— Henry Benjamin Whipple