“I didn't know I was about to be left with her idea of me; with her idea of my goodness pinned onto… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I have a lot of scars, man. My mother said that a man is not a man unless he has a scar… — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
At the age of two-and-a-half, I was run down by a truck. I had gone rogue in the house while my mother… — Trudie Styler Copy Share Image
Stop it. This is serious! (Selena) Serious? Please. I’m standing out here on my twenty-ninth birthday, barefoot and in jeans my mother… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“I dial home. My mother answers. “Hey, Ma,” I say, “Can I talk to Poppa?” She gasps, And then I remember that… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Maketa Groves has a strong, bright lyric gift. Her poems come out of music and are full of music. They bring us… — Diane di Prima Copy Share Image
“Francesca couldn’t say anything, because that would just make her mother feel even worse, and so instead they stood there as they… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“My mother looks at me with love and understanding, and I realize: she knows what my father did. She knows what I… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness of affection… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
My mother had very poor hearing for many years, until she went basically into - I guess I would call it a… — Joan Allen Copy Share Image
A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My happiest childhood memories are of times in our backyard. My mother had an old clothesline that hung out in front. It… — Traci Lords Copy Share Image
Having my daughter in the backseat with her best friend, singing "Let It Go," the Frozen song, at the top of her… — John Feldmann Copy Share Image
I believe in humanity - not just you or Mother, but all mankind. Do I sound like a preacher or a cheap… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family full of strong women. A great aunt on my mother's side had been a matron on… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
I was thinking a lot about myself and my own super inextricably Jewish boy link with my mother. I felt like even… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I was very dedicated and serious about fighting. I'd read about all the fighters. I found out where they came from, knew… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
By the time we woke up on Sundays, my dad would have left home to get mutton. It was a kind of… — Anubhav Sinha Copy Share Image
I have a lot of older brothers who messed up in different ways in my mother's eyes. So I learned from all… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
“Nancy, you know I’m not really good at this mothering business,” she says. “You’re a lovely child, the fault is not with… — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
Growing up we never had the best house on the block, the best car, or the most money, but one thing I… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“I didn't get to grow up and pull away from her and bitch about her with my friends and confront her about… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
We were taught to be dependable, responsible, the top of our classes at school, the most organized and efficient babysitters in town,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
My mother worked for more than a decade before marrying. She went to New York City to get a master's degree. And… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
But the truth is I wanted to have my daughter for so long. It's not the kind of thing you can visit,… — Helen Hunt Copy Share Image
I think that, very often there's a pain that's just too painful to touch. You'll break apart. And I think her mother's… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
“Once giving way to tears, she wept bitterly for all that she had lost, and all that she must lose so soon.… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
That would be the frontispiece. This was a picture of my mother and me coming out of the United States Supreme Court,… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about my disorders for people like my husband or mother who don't suffer but have saved people. Mentally… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
My mother used to read me from Bank Street schools, that book, you know, Bank Street school had these early reader books.… — Maya Wiley Copy Share Image
“He glanced up at the sky, but the stars were washed out behind the glare of the stadium lights. He wondered –… — Nora Sakavic Copy Share Image
Some tropes are universal. Boy meets girl. Betrayal and revenge. The search to discover a hidden truth… A mother's love isn't cliché,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
If I want to read S.J. Perelman's Chicken Inspector No. 23 for the third time instead of some anguished, politically correct saga… — Mel White Copy Share Image
The difference between most mothers and me is that I didn't sit around drinking coffee at baby group for 12 months after… — Katie Hopkins Copy Share Image
My youngest daughter sings. She's going to be very good. She's graduated from Music School and she's been working down around and… — Billy Eckstine Copy Share Image
I grew up with a single mother who brought us up. I always look back at my career, and everything that has… — Prabal Gurung Copy Share Image
I can always tell when my mother, an artist who grew up in Switzerland, starts to feel nostalgic for home. It is… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
It wasn't cool that I didn't comb my hair and had books and wore glasses. It was never cool be a nerd… — AJ Lee Copy Share Image
Whether you plan to labor with an epidural or the Pitocin Fairy pins you down or you end up having an emergency… — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
