Age Quote by Doris Lessing

“Time and again, she refused to let herself be drawn into the heat of battle, and watching her grow bold at the challenge, I…

— Jean Naggar

“While part of my mind puzzled that out, I watched my mother with fascination. I'd listened to her tell her stories. I'd seen and…

— Richelle Mead

I'm still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman.

— Hillary Clinton

Daughters could survive a powerful mother, but boys found it almost impossible. Such boys were often severely damaged and spent the rest of their…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn't…

— Nicki Minaj

Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions…

— Gustave Flaubert

The older I got, the more apparent it became that my mother was losing control over me. She fought back fiercely with black moods,…

— George Carlin

The only way to rebel against my mother was to be totally normal.

— Daisy Lowe

Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women's movements of the time;…

— Indira Gandhi

I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother.

— Isabella Rossellini

She was really strong around me. Having me at 16 had to have been a big responsibility. My mom gave up everything for me,…

— Selena Gomez

I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a…

— Jamaica Kincaid