For the pageants, it was my mother who got me involved in Miss America. It really gave me the opportunity to sing… — Jane Badler Copy Share Image
I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said,… — Indra Nooyi Copy Share Image
All your life you sacrificed your own happiness for ours. As a mother, you did everything to make things perfect for us.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
I just wanted to make a million dollars. But I couldn't sing and I couldn't play ball, so I said to my… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
I often saw weary little women coming to the table after most exhausting labors, and large, bumptious husbands spreading out their hands… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The love of a mother is never exhausted. It never changes - it never tires - it endures through all; in good… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I looked at her. my lovely, tall mother with her pretty coil of hair and her hard, bitter mouth. Her veins were… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
I took my mother's knife and played johnny johnny johnny on the playhouse floor. I was drunk, stabbed myself every few throws.… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Harcourt sent my book to Evelyn Waugh and his comment was: “If this is really the unaided work of a young lady,… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
F*CK ( o Y o ) CANCER!! My mother gave me life & never once asked for anything in return. That is… — JMe Copy Share Image
Chosen motherhood is the real liberation. The choice to have a child makes the whole experience of motherhood different, and the choice… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have ever heard. Obviously,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
Pedro Almodóvar asked me to watch italian films again as homework to look at the energy of all those women from the… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
New Orleans is just so full of culture in the music content - blues, folk. I was introduced to a lot of… — Luke James Copy Share Image
We have to get to the Self beyond its physical and mental instrumentalities to realize we are not fragile mortal beings; there… — Daya Mata Copy Share Image
When I was a child and the snow fell, my mother always rushed to the kitchen and made snow ice cream and… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“My life has been like a battlefield, a war that could never be won unless I had her with me, and the… — Rebecah McManus Copy Share Image
The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman,… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mother was a… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“You make it sound as if I hit her. I did nothing to Edie!' 'Oh? You did nothing? The woman I found… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies - in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
It was like a dam of musical critique had broken. Imasu turned on him with eyes that flashed instead of shining. "It… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I hate when a mother prevents the father of her children from seeing his kids because she is mad that he moved… — Deshawn Branch Copy Share Image
My mother once told me that if a married couple puts a penny in a pot for every time they make love… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
Sometimes I want to just pull the off switch, but you can't because if you go outside, you have to give people… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
Everything I do is inspired by my early life”, Bourgeois’ looked up to her mother who was the most important person in… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
“I think one of those old ladies down there gave me something. Which one looked guilty?” “Probably both of them. After all,… — Mercy Celeste Copy Share Image
My mother, unlike yours, never exchanged sexual favors for a piece of silver," he said, addressing the first insult by banging the… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don't forget. I… — Eric Dickerson Copy Share Image
My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady, and the other was to be independent. The study… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
My young men shall never work, men who work cannot dream; and wisdom comes to us in dreams. You ask me to… — Smohalla Copy Share Image
My poor mother. Every time I get a job she asks, "Am I gonna have to watch you kiss someone again in… — Luke Bracey Copy Share Image
A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his… — Art Linkletter Copy Share Image
Having lived a full and stimulating life before I had my kids, I've relished every minute I've had to spend with them… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
