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My Mother Quotes

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As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon of melancholy  (My Mother Quotes) I created a weapon to defend the borders of my motherland. It’s not my fault that it’s being used where it shouldn’t be. The politicians are more to blame for this  (My Mother Quotes) Whenever I’m with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines  (My Mother Quotes) I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or in the outline of my hand or in the armful of memories I still hold tight. She lives on beneath everything I do. Her presence influenced who I was and her absence influences who I am. Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide  (My Mother Quotes) My mother worshipped at the alter of accessories and I got the bug. She always said, if you have a good, little, simple black dress and you have different accessories, you can have 27 different outfits  (My Mother Quotes) My mother knew if you bought a couple of really good architectural outfits and put your money into accessories, you could create a million different looks. She taught that to me, which I think was invaluable  (My Mother Quotes) So one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn’t become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I’d been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated  (My Mother Quotes) Before getting to my mother’s house, I would always think of her on the porch or even on the street, sweeping. She had a light way of sweeping, as if removing the dirt were not as important as moving the broom over the ground. Her way of sweeping was symbolic; so airy, so fragile, with a broom she tried to sweep away all the horrors, all the loneliness, all the misery that had accompanied her all her life  (My Mother Quotes) It really bothers me when I see people doing my mother in drag. I mean, just imagine if you saw people doing that with your mother  (My Mother Quotes) I’ve been, I think, able to stay grounded in such a crazy business, and I attribute that a lot to my family, and especially to my mother. Because, you know, she just was always there to kind of remind me of what priorities should be. O.K., yes, I’m an artist, I’m a performer, but I’m a sister, I’m a daughter, I’m a granddaughter, I’m an aunt. Those things have to be as important, if not more important, than my career  (My Mother Quotes) Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured. When necessary, a great deal of pain can be endured. Just ask my mother  (My Mother Quotes) Remembering how my mother looked before she gave birth to my sister is frightening. But even more frightening is the feeling that I wanted them to catch me and beat me. Why did I want to be punished? Shadows out of the past clutch at my legs and drag me down. I open my mouth to scream, but I am voiceless. My hands are trembling, I feel cold, and there is a distant humming in my ears  (My Mother Quotes) A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady  (My Mother Quotes) No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud  (My Mother Quotes) My mother didn’t really cook. But she did make key lime pie, until the day the top of the evaporated milk container accidentally ended up in the pie and she decided cooking took too much concentration  (My Mother Quotes) I’ll impose upon you the same arrogance that was imposed on me, and on my mother, my grandmother, my grandmother’s mother: all the way back to the first human born of another human being, whether he liked it or not. Probably, if he or she had been allowed to choose, he would have been frightened and answered: No, I don’t want to be born. But no one asked their opinion, and so they were born and lived and died after giving birth to another human being who was not asked to choose, and that one did likewise, for millions of years, right down to us  (My Mother Quotes) Falling in love for the first time, and then the heartbreak of having it end, is difficult, but I don’t think it would ever hurt as much as when my mother was killed in the boating accident. I feel a part of my heart has already been broken, and that place is reserved for mother  (My Mother Quotes) My mother is very ideologically based, and her ideology is much more important in many ways than her personal relationships  (My Mother Quotes) The heaviest of my crosses was that I could do nothing to lighten the cross my mother was suffering  (My Mother Quotes) My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids wont grow up to be connected to him  (My Mother Quotes) At about five I knew I was going to be an architect because my mother had studied architecture. I thought it was women’s work. I had a proprietary feeling about architecture. I could own it because my mother owned it  (My Mother Quotes) I have now and again tried to imagine the perfect environment, the ideal conditions for reading: A worn leather armchair on a rainy night? A hammock in a freshly mown backyard? A verandah overlooking the summer sea? Good choices, every one. But I have no doubt that they are all merely displacements, sentimental attempts to replicate the warmth and snugness of my mother’s lap  (My Mother Quotes) My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother’s side of the family  (My Mother Quotes) In my mother’s day, she didn’t go to college. Not a lot of women did. Now for every two men who get a college degree, three women will do the same  (My Mother Quotes) I don’t do my mother’s cooking. Because I am a professional and she isn’t. Even if she is a better cook  (My Mother Quotes) I can’t let my mother’s death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it  (My Mother Quotes) And it occurs to me that maybe the reason my mother was so exhausted all the time wasn’t because she was doing so much but because she was feeling so much  (My Mother Quotes) I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a shudder go through me, then the shudder was transformed into a sensation of wakefulness  (My Mother Quotes) The keys that unlock the heart are made of funny materials: a disarming phrase that comes out of the blue, nowhere, a certain sexy walk that sends you reeling, the way someone hums when she is alone. My father said it was the way my mother danced with him  (My Mother Quotes) My mother always told me that as you go through life, no matter what you do, or how you do it, you leave a little footprint, and that’s your legacy  (My Mother Quotes)
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