- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth was, there were four partners in our marriage. Stephen and me, motor neurone disease, and physics. If you took out motor neurone disease, you are still left with physics.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt very committed to Stephen, and I didn't think he could manage without me. I wanted him to carry on doing his amazing work, and I wanted the children to have a stable family behind them - so we just carried on.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think of my life as having two marriages; I think of it as a continuum.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being Stephen's carer was such a struggle, and it's a lonely job looking after a disabled person. Thinking back, I honestly wonder how I got through it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gas man came one day, and he said, 'What does your husband do?' so I told him, and he said, 'What's the use of that?' He had a point, but on the other hand, I firmly believed in Stephen and his brilliance. I encouraged him to popularise his science just because the gas man had been so insulting.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose I was still optimistic and unrealistic, and I just hoped we could keep going as we were. But no. That was not good enough for Stephen, so off he went. Those were hard times. They really were. But then, I suppose, divorce is always hard.
- Felt
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was little, I used to spend a lot of time making up stories when I was put to bed.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt it was terribly important, for Stephen and the children, to keep the family together.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understood Stephen's point of view because if you had been given a death sentence at the age of 21, would you find it easy to believe in a loving God? Also, Stephen's work was taking him into the depths of the universe, and it was, I thought, fairly understandable that there wasn't much room for God in his equations.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living here in Cambridge, you had to have an identity. It was not enough to be a wife. So I did a Ph.D. in medieval Spanish poetry.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Beautiful Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Stephen was first diagnosed, we weren't actually going out together, but I was already falling in love with him. He had beautiful eyes and this amazing sense of humour, so we were always laughing.
- Collapsing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't let him die; I was the agent of life for Stephen.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our marriage was a great success. Stephen achieved what he wanted to achieve, we kept going for a very long time, and we had three wonderful children together.
- Interested
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although a linguist, I was always interested in, and fascinated by, Stephen's explanations of his work and proud of his discoveries and achievements.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did the first proofreading of 'A Brief History of Time,' and when it came to writing my memoir, I consulted many scientific friends so that, contrary to what many critics supposed and were churlish enough to voice, I did actually write the scientific sections myself.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tension between Stephen's atheistic stance and my faith always existed, but neither of us tried to convert the other. I am not evangelical.
- Ever
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't ever believe what you see in films.
- Early Days
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- Nov 07, 2020