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“Jenny couldn't believe herself a multiple. She was a mother, a nurse, not that screwball who appeared on the screen like some… — Judy Byington Copy Share Image
“Change is the law of life,' she said quietly. 'On the other hand,' I protested, 'some things don't change fast enough!' 'Like… — Barbara Cohen Copy Share Image
I've known a lot of religious people. My mother is very religious, but she also is very private about it. When I… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
My mother worked at the telephone company during the day and sold Tupperware at night. Evenings, she took classes when she could… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
“I'll tend to her as no mother ever tended a child, a daughter. Nobody will ever get my milk no more except… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Once when my father-in-law was leaving the house after lunch to return to the field to work, my mother-in-law said, 'Albert, you… — Joe J. Christensen Copy Share Image
I didn't want to raise my daughter in the church because from what I experienced and what I saw, the church becomes… — Leah Remini Copy Share Image
My mom always instilled in me that it was braver to ask for help when you need it. That has absolutely stuck… — Julia Hartz Copy Share Image
I think the art world is one of the last bastions of this kind of sexism where there is a mythology about… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
My father served as an Army doctor in West Germany in the late '50s and early '60s. As a result, he and… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
My brother and sister and I were latchkey kids, with a singer mother and no relationship with our father, and being in… — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
I remember asking my mother if she believed in reincarnation and she said that that sounded very sensible, and I thought, yes,… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
As a child, Kate hat once asked her mother how she would know she was in love. Her mother had said she… — Lynsay Sands Copy Share Image
“Consciousness slipped slowly away, as he watched through gaping roof-holes pinprick stars high up, glistening against a purple sky. He thought of… — J.Y. Sam Copy Share Image
“Catherine. " She swept by me without a hug. Okay, that was familiar, too. "You really should wear something warmer, it's freezing… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
One summer I was made housekeeper to my own family, making menus and shopping lists. It was my mother's idea of teaching… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
[My mother is] a half-Chinese, half-Jamaican woman, who grew up the ninth of nine kids, getting a law degree from Harvard. Academically… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
For Poesy alone can tell her dreams, With the fine spell of words alone can save Imagination from the sable charm And… — John Keats Copy Share Image
John Henry Holliday didn't have a mother to love him when he was grown, so I have taken him for my own.… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
The Mother's knowledge of unity, her powers of sensitivity, humility, and balance, and her infinite respect for the miracle of all life… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice.… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
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Todd's mother had several children by different fathers, and Todd [Willingham] had been abandoned in California. ... He's a good-looking man. He… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I'm one of those hovering mothers and I know it's really important to have an independent child, so I'm trying to back… — Selma Blair Copy Share Image
I'm a mother myself, and sometimes mothers get a bad rap just because they've tried to do their job. Some people have… — Annie Potts Copy Share Image
“After I put on my coat, I turn and whisper to Camille: “Just a minute.” In the living room, I leave a… — Regina Calcaterra Copy Share Image
“I dreamed that I woke up and there was a little girl, not more than three or four years old, standing outside… — Darrell Hammond Copy Share Image
I have sat with the mothers who have lost addicted sons. I have sat with families of kids who have been killed… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
The children in this country are the one center and focus of all our thoughts. Every step of our advance is always… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
I have always felt that too much time was given before the birth, which is spent learning things like how to breathe… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
You tried to slide his original curse back onto him?” Al said in wonder. “At the restaurant? And I stopped you? Sweet… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mother knew best at least as often… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
The longest, most solid and complex relationship in my life is with my mother. It started before I was born, and now,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
As a child, I remember asking my parents when I was five years old, "How come if you are not Zionists, you… — Amira Hass Copy Share Image
I wrote my own pop songs and sang one of them when I went into a stupid beauty competition when I was… — Kristine Opolais Copy Share Image
... a business career for a woman and her need for a woman's life as wife and mother, are not enemies at… — Hortense Odlum Copy Share Image
![“[My mother is] a half-Chinese, half-Jamaican woman, who grew up the ninth of nine kids, getting a law degree from Harvard. Academically brilliant, but also incredibly strong-willed and ethical. My mother was like that, my sister is, and my wife is too.” quote by Harry Connick, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/101/harry-connick-jr-3461_brilliant_my-mother-is-a-half-chinese-half-jamaica_191105.jpg)
![“Todd's mother had several children by different fathers, and Todd [Willingham] had been abandoned in California. ... He's a good-looking man. He was a witty man, you know? Funny, caring. He wasn't arrogant, but he was kind of set in his ways. If he thought something, it was one way. You could show…” quote by Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c57/elizabeth-gilbert-131_abandoned_todd-s-mother-had-several-children-by-di_1279540.jpg)
