Children Quote by Claire Messud

My mother was in the kind of late-sixties, early-seventies origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, "You're not going to be…

— Felicity Jones

I have a very strong mother. She entered me in the Teen Magazine model search when I was 16. I wasn't really that interested.

— Faith Ford

My mother was widowed twice before she turned forty.

— John Hickenlooper

My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty,…

— Jill Lepore

My mother was a woman of the '50s who had a family in the '70s while finding her political and feminist voice. She could…

— Dervla Kirwan

I was 15 when I first read 'The Feminine Mystique,' locked in my bedroom, probably wearing black, groping for any ideas I could find…

— Kim Brooks

My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.

— Carrie Fisher

My mother was ahead of her time as a woman.

— Sandra Bullock

My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be…

— Felicity Jones

My mother had aspirations to become a concert singer. Her Methodist Minister father didn't approve of young girls leaving home until they married, so…

— John Coltrane

My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to…

— Natalie Merchant

I was typecast in a mother's role very early in life. I didn't even reach a certain age. I was 20.

— Shefali Shah