Its the moms of this nation – single, married, widowed – who really hold this country together. Were the mothers, were the wives, were the grandmothers, were the big sisters, were the little sisters, were the daughters. You know its true, dont you? Youre the ones who always have to do a little more. – Ann Romney
I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work. – Ann Romney
I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a storybook marriage. Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer. – Ann Romney
I love the fact that there are also women out there that dont have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too. – Ann Romney
Sibling relationships — and 80 percent of Americans have at least one — outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust. – Erica E. Goode, “The Secret World of Siblings,” U.S. News & Worl