Parenting Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

Mv mother was so literate and literary.

— Dana Reeve

“I had a mother who read to me Sagas of pirates who scoured the sea. Cutlasses clenched in their yellow teeth; "Blackbirds" stowed in…

— Strickland Gillilan

“My mother had to abandon her quest, but managed to extract from the restriction itself a further delicate thought, like good poets whom the…

— Marcel Proust

“There was also a daughter, very short, very plump, very gay, an amazing production for the Gregorievitches. It was as if two very serious…

— Rebecca West

“My own luck was being born white and middle-class into a house full of books, with a father who encouraged me to read and…

— Adrienne Rich

[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.

— Judith Viorst

“...it seemed almost inconceivable that in his short marriage to Althea she had, in her quiet way, left him feeling not only worthy, but…

— Andre Dubus III

“Long, long ago; her thought was of that child By him begot, the son by whom the sire Was murdered and the mother left…

— Sophocles

“Buried feelings of anger and vengeance washed over him as he thought back to the time he discovered who his real father was and…

— Angel Sefer

“supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, the character of her father and mother, her own person and disposition, were…

— Jane Austen

“The day before the Queen's Ball, Father had a visitor--a very young girl with literary aspirations, someone Lord Lytton had recommended visit Father and…

— Dan Simmons

“That was when I still had a mother who taught me to read and write; who handled books with care, saying they were marvels…

— Agustina Bazterrica