Hard Quote by Pamela Druckerman

Compared to some of our neighbours, it's not frowned upon to be a mother and work in France.

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

I don't really consider myself an immigrant, because I was born French; I have always spoken the language. I never had the feeling of…

— Leila Slimani

“Motherhood doesn't have a nationality”

— Melinda Cross

When people go to a new country, whether as refugees or immigrants, kids usually assimilate easily, but it's much harder for the grownups. Especially,…

— Firoozeh Dumas

To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to an author.…

— Delmore Schwartz

When you're an immigrant family, the upbringing, the mentality and the opportunities are all different.

— Kelvin Gastelum

Instruct the mothers of the French people.

— Daniel Webster

It's complicated coming from a culture where to be a mother is more important than to have a career.

— Monica Bellucci

Being a mother must be the most difficult task in the world.

— Koena Mitra

My mother is deeply pragmatic by nature. Perhaps you had to be, as an immigrant. You made do.

— Celeste Ng

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

For someone like me and my generation, you had to speak French to be sophisticated, you had to be lighter-skinned.

— Rabih Alameddine