You know how people say stepmothers are wicked? Well maybe, it's not the mother who is wicked, maybe, it's the child. — Farahliyana Ray Copy Share Image
“I do, too, understand. Rosalind wants to find creepy ladies for Daddy so we don't have to worry about stepmothers.” — Jeanne Birdsall Copy Share Image
Being a stepmother has worked out very well for me. I love my stepchildren very much. — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I've never heard a song written from a stepmother's point of view, about their family. — LeAnn Rimes Copy Share Image
Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
Stepmothers in books usually behave very spitefully towards the children entrusted to them. But he was now learning by his own experience… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
Eight kids and a stepmother, and I just wanted to be out of there and so when I got a scholarship from… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
My stepmother sold my birth certificate and someone asked why I didn't buy it back. I don't know, really. I just couldn't… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least… — Arabella Weir Copy Share Image
In medieval Europe, childbirth was a leading cause of death. So widowed fathers with children were quite common, meaning stepmothers were equally… — Robert Paul Weston Copy Share Image
Now it comes to this stage of my career when I get to play the wicked witch all the time. You know… — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it's cousins or stepmothers or boyfriends. My son is surrounded by… — Bridget Moynahan Copy Share Image
Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“It is customary to have vampires in stories nowadays - they are quite the norm, just like wicked stepmothers used to be.… — Jane De Suza Copy Share Image
All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
As a little kid, not only is my dad Jo-Jo White, but M. L. Carr is involved in the family, Red Auerbach… — Brian J. White Copy Share Image
We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that… — David Richo Copy Share Image
As a female in a home with a whole bunch of brothers and being very close to my father, without a mother… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“It is through hearing about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings… that children learn or mislearn what a child and… — Michael Ward Copy Share Image
My mother - my stepmother, really, she herself have been what they call an elocutionist. And she was the one who first… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
“According to a recent article in the New York Times, few parents expose their children to those works in the original these… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
I've always thought it would be fun to update "Hansel and Gretel." I'd have these white parents in the suburbs with an… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
...and then she glared at me, the same glare my stepmother used to give me when I gave her the Nazi salute.… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
When I was about 19, my stepmother said - because this was back in the '80s - that I had Robert Wagner's… — Michael Weatherly Copy Share Image
My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
We were very lucky. My mother and stepmothers were on very, very good terms, and so we, the children, grew up as… — Oliver Tambo Copy Share Image
Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
The Disney animators' rules on adult females: mothers are perfect but imperiled; stepmothers are wicked and occasionally homicidal; godmothers are sweet things… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I thought it was her wicked stepmother who poisoned her...' '...Turned out the wicked stepmother had an alibi.' '...Seems she was off… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I'm sorry to have to tell you this way, but your mother and I are separating." When I pressed my mouth together,… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
If a book has a predictable storyline or familiar situations, there's little satisfaction for me in writing it. A woman deciding which… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
“Cinders, I would've thought you of all people would know better. There are no wicked stepmothers and there are no fairy godmothers,… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Tell me the story, Pew. . . . It was a woman. You always say that. There's always a woman somewhere, child;… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
