The mom doesn't become sexy; the woman does. You have to retrieve the woman from the mother. And she may need to… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
My father is a teacher; my mother was a telecom employee. I come from Palermo; I was raised in Ethiopia. I am… — Luca Guadagnino Copy Share Image
My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
My mother taught me how to make Boston baked beans. People always buy pork and beans, but my mother will make them… — Agnes Moorehead Copy Share Image
I was adopted when I was a baby. My mother carried me for nine months and she held me for one hour,… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
“Do our dreams carry messages from the great beyond, sent by the people we have lost, or are they a reflection of… — Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
“Mother whispered, 'See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing, If you're for the right thing, then you do… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The earliest influence on me was the movies of the thirties when I was growing up. Those were stories. If you look… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
If I've learned anything as a mom with a daughter who's three, I've learned that you cannot judge the way another person… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I grew up in a no man's land. My mother was ultra liberated and she thought I was backward because I didn't… — Pooja Bedi Copy Share Image
I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got… — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
My face is muffled in my mother's clothing. Her rhinestones injure me. See: my feet are going. Fish flee the forefinger of… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
My advice to moms that have to go to work is to just be easy on yourself and know that you're doing… — Haylie Duff Copy Share Image
I covered Kennedy when she was three years old and the darling daughter of President Kennedy who doted on her and whose… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards. — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Mother was the disciplinarian, but it was Daddy who could turn me into an angel with just one look. — Mary Martin Copy Share Image
“A mother's voice is like no other. We recognize every lilt and whisper, every warble or shriek.” — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
My mother lives with me in Milan, while my father travels to and from Savona. My parents take care of my money,… — Stephan El Shaarawy Copy Share Image
“Sadie heard her inside cleaning up the kitchen and wondered what dreams Betty's mother had for herself, if all mothers had them,… — Karen Brown Copy Share Image
I like one hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain and things that are pink. I hate pimples, baked potatoes, when my… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
My mother was a dancer and my first ambition was to dance, but now that I've had some acting experience I want… — Joey Heatherton Copy Share Image
The final scenes in 'Rain' are just like my mother-in-law when she would sit under the window in my sitting room -… — Penny Johnson Jerald Copy Share Image
“My mother always says that love is like a snakebite, a venom slowly spreading through your veins.” — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“Six years later my mother's absence remained in the air around us, a deafening silence that I had not learned to stifle… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
All mothers sacrifice so much for their kids. So, I think it is the job of a mother that deserves the highest… — Manushi Chhillar Copy Share Image
Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
“She was a mother. One who is mother only to her own children is not a mother; she is only a woman… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Motherhood is the best and worst job in the world. No matter how great a job you might do, you always feel… — Marie Force Copy Share Image
My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to see the… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The people who've given me sh-t, I say - like my mother - what did she say? She used to say, 'Go… — Jacqueline Bisset Copy Share Image
I sang those old gospel songs for my mother, and she said, is that you? And I said, yes, ma'am. And she… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and… — Annie Ilonzeh Copy Share Image
A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It certainly changes your life. So that may be a cliché, but I think any woman would say that [day when her… — Cassandra Peterson Copy Share Image