Bedroom Quote by Kim Brooks

When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who…

— Joyce Maynard

My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to…

— Suzanne Vega

I was suppose to write a book about being a mom, to organize my thoughts into chapters and figure out a structure to hang…

— Jeanne Marie Laskas

I read [The Women's Room] in my 20s, and I was like, "I understand this now." And now I've become a mom and read…

— June Diane Raphael

After I discovered the real life of mothers bore little resemblance to the plot outlined in most of the books and articles I'd read,…

— Mary Blakely

I felt like I had never really heard of a story that reflected the stuff I was going through as a mom. I came…

— Katherine Center

When I was 12, my mother took me to nightclubs. She had no idea how to parent.

— Davina McCall

By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse.

— Gloria Swanson

When childhood ended, I had to suppress feminine characteristics and try and be a boy. I didn't want to grow up at all because…

— Andreja Pejic

Mom was only 23 when she had me, and there's a version of my story where we could have lived in New York, and…

— Liv Tyler

I didn't really inhabit myself until I was in my 30s. And motherhood is an epic event. You can't help but be altered by…

— Anne-Marie Duff

I have a really early childhood memory of being in a darkroom with Mum when I was four or five.

— Mary McCartney