Sandry: "I am silly, now and then. My mother said I was, anyway." Daja: "If you know, you can stop it." Sandry:… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
In modern consumer society, the attack on mother-child eroticism took its total form; breastfeeding was proscribed and the breasts reserved for the… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
After my father died when I was seven and my mother entered into an abusive relationship, I shuffled between houses - staying… — Ronnie Musgrove Copy Share Image
The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling… — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image
I started off as a singer. My mother said to me, 'Go across that street to that theater dept. there's something for… — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
“women have helped women birth, and there is a support a trained labor coach can provide that many partners can—and should—not. Labors… — Mayim Bialik Copy Share Image
“I nearly weep. All I had ever wanted was that my mother be glad to be alive in my presence. I am… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Palliative care is something that you don't know you need until you're in the space where you need it, either from someone… — Jacky Rosen Copy Share Image
You know when you see a mother someplace just melting down on her kid? She's like, 'Shut up, I hate you, you're… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
My mother doesn't cook; my grandmother didn't cook. Her kids were raised by servants. They would joke about Sunday night dinner. It… — Katharine Weymouth Copy Share Image
A mother's love — how sweet the name! What is a mother's love? — A noble, pure and tender flame, Enkindled from… — James Montgomery Copy Share Image
To the outside world, of course, this job is a cinch: 9 to 3, five days a week, two months' summer vacation… — Bel Kaufman Copy Share Image
My mother is the one who taught me to be a lady by her actions. I observed the way that she dressed… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I think historically it's good for younger people to see where so much influence has come from. If you're using my mother… — Nicole Fosse Copy Share Image
Whoa," Connor Stoll said. "Back up. Zoom in right there." "What?" Annabeth said nervously. "You see invaders?" "No, right there—Dylan's Candy Bar."… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Earth doesn't need our consent to wipe us out, any more than we asked permission from corona virus. Cosmos carries no fury… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I had a happy childhood in a nice suburban area, pretty idyllic, upper middle class and very, very white. My dad is… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Throughout our world the cry of the poor so often goes unheard. The prophets harangued Israel and Judah unceasingly about the powerless… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
I'm so sorry that you have to go through all of this. It must be a real harsh time. But, just remember… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Motherless mothers with a history of caretaking experience, usually for sick mothers or younger siblings when they were still children themselves, said… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
Do not count the days, do not count the miles. Count only the Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
To be in any way a positive contribution, that's all anybody wants to be. It's all I've ever wanted to be. I… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother… — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
Each person is made of five different elements, she told me. Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I started teaching myself, taking a breath or a moment that's not overreacting or having an explosion. It made me such a… — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
“When he has disappeared, Mother clears her throat. I don't turn around and look at her in the rocking chair. I don't… — Kathyrn Stockett Copy Share Image
My grandparents and my mother were marvelous people, but they were not particularly demonstrative in their love. It was teachers who were… — Deval Patrick Copy Share Image
“A horrible, heart-slamming-in-her-chest, run-run-run kind of scared. But her mother said there's no outrunning Death or the devil, so she holds her… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
My mother is gay. She was married to my dad up until I was 9. She was just like, 'I'm tired of… — Ashleigh Murray Copy Share Image
“Cassie Wright's largest audience, the only part of her audience still growing, is composed of sixteen-to-twenty-five-year-old men. These men buy her backlist… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There have been systems of religion where the mother is the prime parent, the source, and she's really a more immediate parent… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I saw this Facebook video of a boy, probably around seven, wearing a dress he had fashioned from a blanket, sashaying through… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
The passing of my accountant, Mary Coleman, who was the first person I shouted out on 'In Memory of...' was particularly devastating… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
“I loved her for the way she loved me. I loved her for the way she loved her girls. I loved her… — Beth Ehemann Copy Share Image
“I'm very glad my mother left my father, of course, but as I got older it did get harder to valorize that… — Gwendoline Riley Copy Share Image
My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a… — Betty White Copy Share Image
