After Quote by Sprague Grayden

For one year, I was Keith Mitchell Coogan on my headshots. The next year, I was just Keith Coogan. And I have gone by…

— Keith Coogan

Named after my mother.

— Bonnie Raitt

I was named after my mother. And I guess when I started making records, Madonna Ciccone seemed too long and complicated, and I just…

— Madonna Ciccone

I hate skinny women, especially when they say things like 'Sometimes I forget to eat.' Now, I've forgotten my mother's maiden name, and my…

— Marsha Warfield

Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa. We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bo ught them; white…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

I think about how truly interesting and odd it is that when a woman marries, traditionally she loses her name, becoming absorbed by the…

— A.M. Homes

My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and…

— Alice Walker

'Zolten' is a common Hungarian name, it's my wife's maiden name and most importantly, it's the name of Dracula's dog.

— Penn Jillette

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the…

— Gloria Steinem

My parents' names were Florian and Mabel Smith. My mother's maiden name was Dersam. They were of German heritage and were part of a…

— Paul Smith

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name and apparently that's the key to the whole thing right…

— Paula Poundstone

Mrs. Corey still uses her maiden name for business, or when she wants to pretend she doesn’t know me.

— Nelson DeMille