Top 35 Marie Osmond Quotes

This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that’s where, literally, you get so bad that you end up either hurting the baby or killing yourself.

I learned a great lesson from my mother on her deathbed. She counseled me on the importance of taking care of myself so I wouldn’t end up in an unhealthy body like she did.

I lost boundaries as a child that I didn’t even realize it and it wasn’t talked about back then. You know, it was something you just buried and dealt with, and moved forward. What could you do about it?

I think a couple should complete one another, not compete with one another.

Never be too busy to listen to your instinctive feelings when something feels wrong.

You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away.

I didn’t know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don’t know their mothers had it; that’s the sad thing about depression. You know, you don’t function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.

When I did ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ I got literally thousands of emails from people saying, ‘We relate to you. I’ve been divorced. I’m raising kids on my own.’ Or, ‘You’ve had money. You’ve lost money.’

The other thing is that doctors test only the most common estrogen level. There are three kinds of estrogen in a woman but they don’t test the other two because they are so rare; mine was the third kind of estrogen.

I don’t play politics; I don’t do that. I think there’s too many celebrities out there claiming what they believe. I think it’s our job to get people out to study the issues and to know what they believe and what they want to vote for.

You know, you don’t work 30 something years in this business without knowing how to push yourself. So, I just kept pushing myself and pushing myself. The other thing that happens is when your hormones get out of whack your emotions come up.

We know well and we know chronically ill, but there is a whole bunch of gray in between where I think we can heal people before they become chronically sick. I believe our thoughts make us sick.

My mother never asked me to do anything she wouldn’t do herself. She always taught by example.

You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things will happen, so the best prevention is a positive attitude.

I was 15 years old, taken out into a parking lot on the set of ‘Donny & Marie,’ and at the time I was 5-foot-5 and 103 pounds – like, nothing. I was told I was an embarrassment to my family and the show would be canceled if I didn’t lose 10 pounds.

Women are so strong and knowledgeable. You know, instead of competing with each other, I would love to complete each other. Take away that wall of competition and say, ‘Hey, let’s just all get together and help each other be brilliant.’

You just need to be honest with how you’re feeling. But, a lot of women are afraid of it because they think, ‘Oh, they are going to take my baby away. They’re gonna call me incompetent. I’m going to lose my job. I’ve got to be tough, it’s a man’s world.’

I was so honored when Diane Sawyer named me ‘Person of the Week,’ and like I told her, ‘Diane, I love my daughter.’ I cried when I found out when she told me she was gay when she was 17 because of the judgment.

The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

When I look in the mirror, I see my late mother: I have her nose, her dark eyes – I call them chocolate eyes – I have her colouring, and my hair is greying the same way, although I use colour and she didn’t.

Little things in my past that I really thought were over and done with were still elements of the puzzle that weren’t pieced together, and so she helped me do that.

If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

I have always lived the way I wanted regardless of whether or not it was popular.

I wish my parents could have raised every man out there.

Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.

This is a physical thing that is fixable. I know, I’m a survivor. Believe me, there was no way I thought I could survive. There are answers out there that need to be found.

When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.

I have great faith in God. Without faith, I don’t know how I would have been able to get through what I’ve been through.

I’ll always be best known as Marie Osmond, but in my checking account and at home, I will gladly be Marie Craig.

What basically happens is your hormones get out of whack. Because of the stress in your life your body says, ‘I need more hormones.’ So, your hormones are trying to produce and produce and produce, and it’s even more stressful and it is this wicked cycle.

You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.

I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, ‘I wish this would have been brought out sooner, my sister is in prison for suffocating her child.’

I don’t claim to know everything. I claim to be a seeker of knowledge.

So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it’s not the mother’s fault. This is the thing: they shouldn’t feel ashamed. They didn’t cause this. It is not something they did to themselves.

That’s what it is to be a grandma. All fun and no stress.