Happened Quote by Cecily von Ziegesar

There's a transition you go through in your early 20s where your mum goes from being just your mum to a real person who…

— Amelia Dimoldenberg

I first foreswore motherhood when I was about eight years old. ... [Children] were annoying. We were loud and sneaky and broke things. As…

— Lionel Shriver

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

— James MacArthur

I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving.

— Tori Amos

I'm discovering, and I think other mums are discovering too, that when you become a mum, you don't have to change into this frumpy,…

— Ali Wong

I remember my mother would get upset with me 'cause she said I walked like my dad. But I think it was more like,…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I don't feel I'm as good a mum as my mum was.

— Tori Amos

Being a mum changed me for the better.

— Jenny Frost

My mum went above and beyond to make up for the fact I didn't have two parents. I was very lucky.

— Stacey Dooley

Are anybody's parents typical?

— Madeleine L'Engle

My parents were singularly uninterested in me. My father was too self-centered and too busy with his own practice to pay a lot of…

— Rainer Weiss

Mum and dad were very much friends, and up to life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up, they just…

— Kate Winslet