We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us. — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
All my aunts in the Phillipines, they look at me and say 'Darreeeeeen! You so thin! Eat!' — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
“She knew one of the great family truths, that aunts always help, whilr moms always think it would be good for you… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I was raised by my grandmother, my mom, about five or six aunts and female cousins as well. We were all in… — Daniel Jacobs Copy Share Image
I was brought up to look after my parents. My family were Polish Jews, and we lived with my grandmother, with uncles… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
Whenever I've not known what to do, I've always gone back to the Carter Family because there was nothing like singing with… — Carlene Carter Copy Share Image
I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I talk a lot about the men in my family because my mother died when I was little, and my grandmother died… — Ilhan Omar Copy Share Image
“No empire imposed by force or otherwise has ever been without this feature: control of the indigenous by members of their own… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
From Italy, I'd get calls from cousins and aunts saying, 'I don't think you should act. It's really tough. What are the… — Enrico Colantoni Copy Share Image
My favorite team is the Bengals. In Idaho, we didn't really have a home team. But my parents are from Ohio, and… — Nate Holland Copy Share Image
The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing percussion very… — Ronaldinho Copy Share Image
When I was 9 years old, I really wanted to be in the show business. I really wanted to be an artist.… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
My dad worked for a generator company and then UC Berkeley, and my mom was as a dental hygienist and then eventually… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
Mum and Dad used to do a lot of entertaining. We had quite a nice house, so everybody descended on us at… — Ainsley Harriott Copy Share Image
It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
I was complimented for looking young and yet was offered roles of aunts, sister-in-law and very soon grandma too! — Himani Shivpuri Copy Share Image
Growing up, my aunts would always put in hair ties and bows and all kinds of stuff, and I always hated it. — Zazie Beetz Copy Share Image
My aunts told wonderful stories. Not to me, but to each other. We had a very strong family. My mother's sisters loved… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
My grandparents and my aunts tell me that I need to make a name for myself like my mother. Their thoughts really… — Prateik Babbar Copy Share Image
Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I was swimming in art day and night. There were always parties being thrown, with artists from every medium (my extended aunts… — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Amish children are usually named after aunts or uncles or some other relation. Keeps the family names going.” — Sarah Price Copy Share Image
Theyre not group animals, theyre completely solitary, so if the babys mother is taken away, theres no system of aunts ... their… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
The friends I have from childhood are definitely like family to me - extended sisters and brothers, aunts and uncles. — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
I have to say, I'm not someone who's really big into my family history - never really was very curious about it.… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I knew nothing about my mum's family. Her parents were dead by the time she was 14. She was brought up by… — Jasmine Guinness Copy Share Image
My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer. — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group… — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
Mom was a single mother. So three aunts and three uncles and all of mom's friends pitched in as weekend warriors. — Rory O'Malley Copy Share Image
I have a big family. Even though it's only three kids in our family, it's always aunts and uncles and the whole… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
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