Abolish Quote by Basmah bint Saud

With The King Center as her base, my mother pressed on to fulfill a role that changed lives and legislation. She was a woman…

— Bernice King

My father was prime minister, and to take care of his home, to be his hostess, automatically meant to have my hands in politics…

— Indira Gandhi

My mother wanted to be president of the United States. She wanted to be the first woman president. She was born in 1924. Instead…

— Carol Ross Barney

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

— Maya Lin

My father became completely responsible for my education and for raising me.

— Diego Luna

My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he…

— Lupita Nyong'o

Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women.

— Kirsty Gallacher

What royal families are very good at doing is surviving and reinventing themselves. That's true whether it's a constitutional monarchy in Britain or an…

— Robert Lacey

A few years after my father's death, my mother sent me to the United Kingdom for 'better prospects' in 1951. Those four years were…

— Ruskin Bond

My mother was a professor of English and History.

— Sonu Sood

My father was an important person, the director of the school. He could talk to anybody - simple or educated. He liked chess, fishing,…

— Svetlana Alexievich

The monarchical institution in England is immensely valuable.

— Malcolm Muggeridge