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
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
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
...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
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
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
Life and stories are alike in one way: They are full of hollows. The king and queen have no children: They have… — Franny Billingsley 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
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
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
The reason that stepmothers are often the bad guy in fairy tales is because people died in childbirth, all the time, so… — Chris Weitz 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
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
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
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
O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a… — Leonardo da Vinci 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
Being a stepmother has worked out very well for me. I love my stepchildren very much. — Philippa Gregory 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
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
Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals. — Leonardo da Vinci 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
I've never heard a song written from a stepmother's point of view, about their family. — LeAnn Rimes 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
