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If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say (My Mother Quotes)
My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion (My Mother Quotes)
My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline (My Mother Quotes)
When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options: nursing and teaching. She raised me and my sister to believe that we could do anything, and we believed her (My Mother Quotes)
My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of the night. She said she wanted me to know that even if I was hurt, I was still fine (My Mother Quotes)
Before I had a son, I used to look at my father’s example: he left me, he left my mother. When I had a son, I got caught in the same situation that his mother don’t want me to see him. I started looking at my father in a different light (My Mother Quotes)
My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me (My Mother Quotes)
My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions (My Mother Quotes)
I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought I would ever be (My Mother Quotes)
You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother’s bosom? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest (My Mother Quotes)
My mother only had a third grade education, was illiterate, worked as a domestic 2 to 3 jobs at a time, because she didn’t want to be on welfare, because she never saw people who went on welfare come off of welfare, and she just didn’t want to have her life controlled in that fashion (My Mother Quotes)
I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater (My Mother Quotes)
I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time (My Mother Quotes)
I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother’s milk (My Mother Quotes)
My mother is my hero just because, what life becomes about is overcoming adversity, and I watched her overcome so many things in life but still able to smile. See it’s one thing to overcome adversity and to be scarred and to carry that with you but when you have somebody overcomes adversity and they’re still able to smile that’s something else. That’s true strength (My Mother Quotes)
People always want to ask me about my dad. Which I get because he’s a phenomenal actor, and that’s for the world, that’s out there. But my mother is every bit as impressive and as important for the world as my dad is. It’s just that she’s not an actor (My Mother Quotes)
I’m frugal. It’s often cheaper to take the subway. And I’m an environmentalist, which my mother instilled in me, so I really believe in public transportation. And finally, I love the proximity to people in the subway (My Mother Quotes)
My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy (My Mother Quotes)
My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state; that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity (My Mother Quotes)
Feminists of my mother’s generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores. My parents, for example, split everything 50/50. Even though my father is a terrible cook, he still made dinner exactly half the time (My Mother Quotes)
Once, my mother told a whole host of angels that she’d rather die than go back to a man she didn’t love (My Mother Quotes)
My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just the sandwich (My Mother Quotes)
I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me (My Mother Quotes)
People are usually pretty hungry after a funeral. I guess it’s because we all realize that time is running out and we better eat all we can. Please don’t mention that to my mother (My Mother Quotes)
I was so well loved by my mother that if people have any expectations of me I really don’t notice because I’m hardest on myself (My Mother Quotes)
My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up (My Mother Quotes)
When my mother died, and when my father died, it’s big. Our parents are giants; they’re titans of our lives, so of course it’s going to be a big deal (My Mother Quotes)
I don’t write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it’s not right to, for me (My Mother Quotes)
My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background (My Mother Quotes)
I was speechless. Rare for me, but if anyone was capable of shocking me to silence, it was my mother (My Mother Quotes)