I don't think of my life as having two marriages; I think of it as a continuum. — Jane Hawking I think Copy Share Image
Living here in Cambridge, you had to have an identity. It was not enough to be a wife. So I did a… — Jane Hawking Enough Copy Share Image
Being Stephen's carer was such a struggle, and it's a lonely job looking after a disabled person. Thinking back, I honestly wonder… — Jane Hawking Job Copy Share Image
The gas man came one day, and he said, 'What does your husband do?' so I told him, and he said, 'What's… — Jane Hawking Day Copy Share Image
I couldn't go off and leave Stephen. Coals of fire would have been heaped on my head if I had. — Jane Hawking Been Copy Share Image
We met in our hometown of St. Albans when I had just left school and Stephen was starting his Ph.D. studies in… — Jane Hawking Cambridge Copy Share Image
When I was little, I used to spend a lot of time making up stories when I was put to bed. — Jane Hawking Bed Copy Share Image
I was born in Norwich, which I still regard as the most beautiful city in the world, despite the attempts by the… — Jane Hawking Beautiful Copy Share Image
I understood Stephen's point of view because if you had been given a death sentence at the age of 21, would you… — Jane Hawking Age Copy Share Image
Just because you can no longer have a physical relationship with someone doesn't mean you don't love them. — Jane Hawking Fitness Copy Share Image
The truth was, there were four partners in our marriage. Stephen and me, motor neurone disease, and physics. If you took out… — Jane Hawking Four Copy Share Image
The tension between Stephen's atheistic stance and my faith always existed, but neither of us tried to convert the other. I am… — Jane Hawking Always Copy Share Image
That the Hawkings were eccentric, even odd, was well known. That they were aloof, convinced of their own intellectual superiority over the… — Jane Hawking Awe Copy Share Image
The carer of the disabled person is always in the background. People don't want to hear about the sleaze and the nitty-gritty… — Jane Hawking About Copy Share Image
I suppose I was still optimistic and unrealistic, and I just hoped we could keep going as we were. But no. That… — Jane Hawking Good Copy Share Image
In the early days of our marriage, Stephen could walk around Cambridge on my arm - a stick on one hand, leaning… — Jane Hawking Days Copy Share Image
No matter how bad I was feeling, I always thought, 'Stephen must be feeling worse.' — Jane Hawking Always Copy Share Image
I had scarcely met Stephen, and then one Saturday I met some old friends for coffee, and they were saying, 'Gosh it's… — Jane Hawking Friendship Copy Share Image
After the success of Stephen's book, a whole new crowd of people became very interested in him, and the family was just… — Jane Hawking Books Copy Share Image
To me, Stephen was my husband and the father of my children; one does not say to one's husband, 'Oh, you're so… — Jane Hawking Case Copy Share Image
Our marriage was a great success. Stephen achieved what he wanted to achieve, we kept going for a very long time, and… — Jane Hawking Children Copy Share Image
My philosophy is that while there's life, there's hope. It's as simple as that. — Jane Hawking Hope Copy Share Image
In a sense, I am achieving what I set out to do - to devote myself to Stephen, to give him the… — Jane Hawking Chance Copy Share Image
Intellectually, Stephen was a towering giant. Bodily, he was as helpless as a newborn. The functions I fulfilled were all maternal rather… — Jane Hawking Giant Copy Share Image
