Sometimes there's a very special relationship between a…

I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hilariously self-centred. She did not really take interest…

— John Cleese

When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a distorted relationship…

— Andrew Solomon

The relationship I have with my mother now, and photographing her in front of the grave, it opens up discussions, and dealings with the…

— Jurgen Teller

The relationship you have with your mother is like nothing else. They do kind of know everything about you, even though they don't confront…

— Sarah Waters

Not every woman thinks that their mother is a nice person. I feel like when you really examine a woman's relationship with her mother,…

— Dawn O'Porter

“The kind of relationship I had with my mother didn't make me gay. I had that kind of relationship with my mother because I…

— Dan Savage

Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman…

— Diane Frolov

I think the relationship between mother and daughter is so interesting, even in a semi-normal family. Emily Thorne/Amanda Clarke's family relationship is going to…

— Emily VanCamp

I never thought about the relationship of my mother, my family, to the content of my work.

— Robert Wilson

“As we’ve gone along, I’ve pointed out that a warm childhood relationship with his mother—not maternal education—was significantly related to a man’s verbal test…

— George E. Vaillant

My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot more writing…

— Wendy C. Ortiz

I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the night if I wasn't…

— Marina Abramovic

I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together…

— Laura Dern

Even though I have a zero relationship with my mother in law, she still insists I call her mom.

— Anonymous

“Authors often say that their novels are like their children, and you want your novel, just like your children, to reflect well on you.…

— Howard Mittelmark