My career choice was to be a mother.

It can be here today and gone tomorrow.

I eat as healthy as I can. It is tough.

We need to respect choices that women make.

Everybody has problems. Everyone has issues.

I'd sit on a horse and forget I was even sick.

Once your health is taken away, you have nothing.

I am so mad at the press I could just strangle them!

Riding exhilarated me; it gave me a joy and a purpose.

Motherhood was my career. I'm totally satisfied with that.

Everyone in life has their challenges, mine have not been financial.

My kids don't drink and don't smoke. For me, that's a great blessing.

The thing that's nice about pregnancy is that in the end, you have a baby.

Raising children is the hardest job that there is on the face of the Earth.

This is the genius of America: dreams fulfilled help others launch new dreams.

You know how exasperated you can be when you're the mother of five young boys.

It's been quite an experience, being conservative and living in the North East.

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

It's the moms who always have to work a little harder, to make everything right.

I know for certain people I'm championing a struggle that they're going through.

I know what it's like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have.

You just deal with the cards that are dealt you and you just go on and push forward.

A storybook marriage? No, not at all. What Mitt Romney and I have is a real marriage.

My faith experience, well, as you can imagine, you need a lot of faith to raise five boys.

If you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life.

There is huge merit in both Eastern and Western medicine, and I've taken a little bit from both.

We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's load.

As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.

It may look perfect, but that's one thing I have learned about life is that it isn't always what it looks.

The secret to a happy marriage is a sense of humor, because marriage throws you curveballs. It is not easy.

We've given all you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and how we live our life.

We are all children of the same God, and we have to come together to solve our problems and not be fighting so much.

We're too smart to know there aren't easy answers. But we're not dumb enough to accept that there aren't better answers.

Mitt doesn't like to talk about how he has helped others because he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point.

Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.

Everywhere I go people come up to me, they mob me - anyone who has MS or has a relative with MS - they come up and hug and cry.

The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.

Sometimes when I hear criticism of my husband, I want to come out of my seat and clock somebody. But you learn to take a deep breath.

We can be poor in spirit, and I don't even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing, it can be here today and gone tomorrow.

We can be poor in spirit, and I don’t even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing. It can be here today and gone tomorrow.

When you're used to being healthy and strong and vibrant and everything and then - bang - overnight you're desperately ill, it's frightening.

We give 10 percent of our income to our church every year. Do you think that is the kind of person who is trying to hide things, or do things?

When I was so fatigued that I couldn't move, the excitement of going to the barn and getting my foot in the stirrup would make me crawl out of bed.

If I were a 40-year-old woman, 40-to-50, I'd want to be getting my mammograms. They catch cancers, and cancer is very curable if you catch it early.

Having been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998, and I am continually amazed by the level of support I receive from individuals across the country.

I'm not sure if men really understand this, but I don't think there's a woman in America who really expects her life to be easy. In our own ways, we all know better!

How I measure riches is by the friends I have and the loved ones I have and the people I care about in my life and that is where my values are and those are my riches.

You can never ask God to tell you what the end is. You can ask, "Is this a good thing to do?" But not, "How is this going to turn out?" That answer you will never get.

There have been so many people that have come up and embraced me as an example of what it's like to face something tough and just get up the next day and keep pushing.

You have to recognize that deep within your soul, you know who you are - and let [the criticism] go right by you. If you're reacting to it, you're letting it get to you.

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