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I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone  (My Mother Quotes) Never complain. When I did, my mother said that if I didn’t like my life, I could just give up and die. She reminded me that when I was inside her, I told her that I wanted to be born, so she delivered me, breastfed me and changed my diapers. She said that I had to be brave  (My Mother Quotes) In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her  (My Mother Quotes) When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts  (My Mother Quotes) I’m not saying my mother didn’t like me, but she kept looking for loopholes in my birth certificate  (My Mother Quotes) Like most men, my father is interested in action. And this is why he disappoints my mother when she tells him she doesn’t feel well and he offers to take her to the doctor. He is focused on what he can do, whereas she wants sympathy  (My Mother Quotes) What distinguished my life from my brother’s is that my mother didn’t like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her  (My Mother Quotes) I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I met my mother just setting out for the meeting, and I begged her to let me go along  (My Mother Quotes) My mother, who was radiant, young, and beautiful even as she lay dying, heard voices and saw visions, but she always managed to make friends with them and was much too charming to hospitalize even at her craziest  (My Mother Quotes) I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life. I’ve spent a life loving women, and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to  (My Mother Quotes) My mother went to university, my father didn’t. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he’s worldly  (My Mother Quotes) When I was a kid, my mother’s parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence  (My Mother Quotes) My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young  (My Mother Quotes) I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn’t deal with them  (My Mother Quotes) The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather  (My Mother Quotes) My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since  (My Mother Quotes) My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures  (My Mother Quotes) My mother says I’m like a disease that can walk into a room and get it infected. I can destroy things in seconds  (My Mother Quotes) I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it’s useless. It’s meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it  (My Mother Quotes) When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs of the books she owned and send off her manuscript  (My Mother Quotes) When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don’t forget. I was a junior looking through my mother’s stuff and looked at her bank statement, and we had $30 in the bank  (My Mother Quotes) There was never any pressure on me to go into the business, but I was always aware of it. I’d go on the set with my father and he and my mother would always be singing  (My Mother Quotes) People used to always ask, and I would say I wanted to be an actress. When they would ask why, I would say because my mother has so much fun  (My Mother Quotes) I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I’m reading a book or doing some little project  (My Mother Quotes) What I wanted to do was to earn enough money to pay for my mother’s house. When my mother passed away, I wanted to buy it from the rest of my family and keep the house in the family. That was the only reason I even attempted writing for money  (My Mother Quotes) My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself  (My Mother Quotes) My daddy served in the army where he lost his right eye, but he flew a flag out in our yard until the day that he died. He wanted my mother, my brother, my sister and me, to grow up and live happy in the land of the free  (My Mother Quotes) My mother was always working for a job, so I guess I was always trained that I should have multiple jobs, multiple aspirations. And I remember she had multiple aspirations, always hearing about her dreams and things she did in the past and things she wanted to do  (My Mother Quotes) I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be  (My Mother Quotes) I remember the day my mother died, and it’s still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out  (My Mother Quotes)
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