26 Jane Hawking Quotes for You to Enjoy

Jane Hawking

English Author

Born: Mar 29, 1944

Always Family Me Time Together You

Related authors: A. A. Milne H. G. Wells J. K. Rowling Lewis Carroll Mary Shelley Samuel Johnson Simon Sinek Terry Pratchett

I had scarcely met Stephen, and then one Saturday I met some old friends for coffee, and they were saying, 'Gosh it's terrible about Stephen, isn't it?' They told me that he had been in St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London having horrible tests and then had been diagnosed with an atypical form of a rare disease - motor neurone disease. Jane Hawking

Saying Me Old Coffee Rare Met Old Friends Scarcely London Some Horrible About Having Hospital Had He Terrible Gosh Diagnosed Were Been Tests Motor Friends Disease Form Then Saturday

I don't think of my life as having two marriages; I think of it as a continuum. Jane Hawking

Life My Life Think Marriages Having Continuum Two

When I was playing with the children, I felt I ought to be working, and when I was working, I felt I ought to be playing with the children. Jane Hawking

Ought Felt Children Working Playing

I felt it was terribly important, for Stephen and the children, to keep the family together. Jane Hawking

Family Together Important Terribly Felt Children Keep

Of course I don't think any of the past will go away. The thing is, with me and Stephen, for many years, I put every spoon of food into his mouth, dressed him, and bathed him. You do not forget that experience. Jane Hawking

We would look up at the night sky together, and although Stephen wasn't actually very good at detecting constellations, he would tell me about the expanding universe and the possibility of it contracting again and describe a star collapsing in on itself to form a black hole in a way that was quite easy to understand. Jane Hawking

Good Me Together Sky Black Universe Way Collapsing Possibility Tell Would Easy Constellations Black Hole About He Look Although Understand Contracting Up Itself Very Expanding Quite Form Hole Again Describe Star Actually Night

I had to be steadfast in my Christian beliefs, seeking strength from them. Jane Hawking

Strength Christian Seeking Steadfast Had Them Beliefs

In the early days of our marriage, Stephen could walk around Cambridge on my arm - a stick on one hand, leaning on me with the other. I carried a baby on one arm and Stephen on the other. Jane Hawking

Me Marriage Walk Baby Other Our Carried Could Arm Days Leaning Stick Around Cambridge Hand Early Early Days

I couldn't go off and leave Stephen. Coals of fire would have been heaped on my head if I had. Jane Hawking

Fire Would Had Head Leave Go Been Off Coal

I felt that Stephen had become such a significant figure, a scientist of such international renown, that at some future date, someone would be sure to attempt an inaccurate, sensationalised biography, possibly including me, possibly writing me out of the script. Jane Hawking

Future Me Writing Become Out Significant Possibly Would Would-Be Some Someone Date Attempt Had Sure Felt Renown Scientist Script Inaccurate Figure International Including Biography

My philosophy is that while there's life, there's hope. It's as simple as that. Jane Hawking

Life Hope Simple Philosophy While

We were surrounded by influences and interests that came between Stephen and me. The nurse who became his wife was seeking to undermine me, and there were wider influences, too, following the runaway success of 'A Brief History of Time.' Jane Hawking

I never sacrificed myself. I did what I did out of love. Jane Hawking

Love Myself Out Never Sacrificed Did

Through singing, I met my second husband, Jonathan, who is a professional musician. He transformed our lives and relieved me of much of the strain that I had been carrying for so long. Jane Hawking

Stephen's the great survivor, isn't he? He just goes on and on. Jane Hawking

Great He Survivor Goes Just

That the Hawkings were eccentric, even odd, was well known. That they were aloof, convinced of their own intellectual superiority over the rest of the human race, was also widely recognized in St. Albans, where they were regarded with a suspicion and awe. Jane Hawking

Rest Own Recognized Eccentric Superiority Over Aloof Also Well Well Known Known Odd Were Intellectual Human Suspicion Where Regarded Race Convinced Human Race Even Awe Widely

In a sense, I am achieving what I set out to do - to devote myself to Stephen, to give him the chance of fulfilling his genius. But what have I become in the process? Who am I? What is there left of me? I am beginning to doubt my own identity. Jane Hawking

Myself Me Genius Become Beginning Own Sense Doubt Out Give My Own Devote Identity Him Am His Left Achieving Process Fulfilling Who Who Am I Chance Set

Stephen could be highly critical of people other than his closest relatives... He considered my friends to be easy victims and had no compunction in monopolizing the conversation at parties with his controversial opinions. Jane Hawking

Conversation People Relatives Other Considered Critical Easy Could Had He Highly Parties Opinions His Friends Than Closest Controversial Victims

I loved Stephen so much that nothing could deter me from wanting to marry him. Jane Hawking

Me Nothing Marry Deter Could Him Wanting Loved Much

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