Accepting Quote by Diane Cilento

You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like.

— Geraldine Ferraro

Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why…

— Mario Puzo

I have no Italian in me. I'm Cuban, Greek, Romanian and Sephardic Jew, so I couldn't get further from Italian. But I guess I've…

— Jamie Lynn Sigler

In Italy, the concept of the family is very important.

— Monica Bellucci

Men often marry their mothers.

— Edna Ferber

For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.

— Domenico Dolce

I have family in Italy that my mother keeps in contact with, but I don't because I don't speak Italian.

— Pauly D

“Della had recently remarried and promised my mother that she and her new husband”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“...the pride taken by the Italians in their gifted women is among the most important facts in the history of their Renaissance.”

— Walter Shaw Sparrow

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

— Martha Gellhorn

My parents could not be more Italian.

— Edoardo Ponti

“Whether it was the delicious food they filled us with, their humorous antics, or the extreme warmth and acceptance they provided the family, one…

— Jacqueline Miconi