Kate Gosselin
There are very few people who I can trust. I look at those people and say, Why do you keep coming back?Collection: Trust
Being bullied was the most difficult part of my early teen years.Collection: Teen
The odds are so against me, one mom and eight kids.
I am lonely. I clean up the house, put kids to bed and there I sit.
Who ever would have thought that I'd be running a marathon? Certainly not me, but it's amazing where life leads you if you're willing to live passionately!
No matter how much money you have, it's just smart to use coupons. It's like free money in your pocket.
One week, I remember saving more than half my grocery bill that week with coupons. I was beyond thrilled.
I have a crazy work schedule.
I feel like I have my life together pretty much, but let be honest; it's going to take a strong person to wrangle this mess.
I like to have fun, but I don't have a lot of time for myself. I do have eight kids!
The important thing is that I control my reaction, my behavior, my attitude and my words. What I receive back is not in my control.
I do a lot on TV.
There are so many single moms and dads out there, and we are all just trying to pick up the pieces together. It's hard.
I don't want to be single for the rest of my life. And I felt that way for a long time.
It's really hard like when people ask me questions like 'So what is your life like?' I mean, I almost feel like saying, 'Do you have 10 years for me to explain it?'
I feel like I know what my role is as a mom, and I know that there is eight people on the planet that matter to me and their opinions matter. If those eight people say that I've done a good job, honestly the rest doesn't even matter.
At the dinner table every night we pray together.
Walk a day in my shoes and you'd be irritable too.
I'm not going to be somebody I'm not.
A loaf of bread is $3-plus, and you can make an organic loaf of bread - that tastes a hundred times better, by the way - for probably a nickel or a dime.
I've learned to deal with stress. In fact, things that would make the next person go over a cliff don't even make my radar anymore.
I realize that life isn't perfect - it can't be perfect. I can drive myself nuts trying to make it perfect, or I can just have a lot of fun with the kids.
My faith and my kids are the two things that matter.
With a reality show, the bottom line is, there's no plot; there's no finale.
I am seeking to be positive, have integrity, and speak with grace.
Many, many people - many parents feel that their decisions are, maybe not, great decisions. Every parent has that, you know, parent guilt of my goal is to produce wonderful, productive individuals and put them out into society.
My main concern is my kids. And I don't want them to see or hear anything on TV that I didn't discuss with them.
Each day the thought crosses my mind that when they get older, my kids are going to look back and think about how they were raised. I know they will have a lot of questions about things that may not make sense because they were raised so unconventionally.
I'm in the public eye.
Manly men have a caring heart for all living things.
I'm not a mom that's going to tell my kids everybody wins.
You have to work really hard to be first place in life.
You have to be comfortable enough to take what people say about you and laugh.
Everyone makes mistakes, and they never go unnoticed when you're in the public eye.
I'm willing and excited to learn whatever I can.
I have a business-running personality.
I am a strong personality.
Drama gets in the way of getting work done.
I know that I'm glad to be divorced and on my own.
I wouldn't change my marriage because I have eight awesome kids that I would not change.
I use my haters as my motivators.
With every positive, there is a negative across the board in life. It's about choosing to see the positive and working with the negative.
The more you run, the faster you get, and that's more efficient because you're running more in less time.
Obviously, as parents, we want to do what's best for the kids.
Everything has good and bad.
I struggle because I really don't want to be married again - can you blame me? - but I don't want to be alone.
If you take care of yourself and try to look nice, it's reflective of how you feel about yourself.
I would love to be the voice of a cartoon character in a movie for my kids. I think that would be fun.
I'd love to be in a movie at some point.
I've done enough years on TV that I feel like it's a normal, comfortable, natural place to be.