Judy Blume Quotes

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

When I was a young mother at home with a two year old and a five year old, living on the Eastside in one of those neighborhoods where all the houses look the same, where all the cars look the same and the lawns look the same, I was writing in secret.

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

What I really wanted to do, actually, was stay home and be a mom and have some more kids.

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.

One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.

I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.

I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.

I tried being a stay-at-home mom for eight weeks. I like the stay-at-home part. Not too crazy about the mom aspect.

I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

I'm very lucky. I have a really supportive husband in Henry, and there's my mum, too. I couldn't have a career and manage the kids' routines and household thing single-handedly. I'd just go crazy.

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

At the beginning, I really wanted to be home with my kid. I was a product of my generation. But in the suburbs, you are very isolated, really alone.

I got married quite early. And then I had a son. I had a family. And this may be hard to believe, but I am a complete family kinda girl.

I have become a housewife and there is no better job.

I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.

For years, there was no man in the house when my husband was off on law cases in the Far East. Without writing, I would have been bored and unfaithful, maybe both, and the children would have been hideously over-protected.

Sometimes I do envision just being a stay at home mom but not working isn't an option for me currently.

I draw hundreds and hundreds of pictures of sort of gnarly looking men, so I don't know what that tells you. People who look like... they're waiting for a sandwich that's never going to come. I don't know what's wrong with me.

Kids are fabulous, but when you're home all day with an infant that can't talk, your brain starts to kind of melt, and I thought, 'I have to do something, or my brain is just going to liquefy.'

When I was little, I didn't have dreams to be an actress or a star; I wanted to be a mom, have a house and a picket fence.

I love caring for my home and family.

I wanted to get out of the pictures and stay home so that I could have children.

Motherhood and marriage are the best bits of my life now. Who would have thought I would be enjoying that?