- Nov 07, 2020
Mother Quotes
On mothers, their advice, and what stays with us.
Several of these lines trace back to childhood impressions left by a mother's words, whether about appearance, privacy, or simply keeping close watch. For prayer-toned reflections, see Prayers.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father worked in high-energy nuclear physics, and my mother was a mycologist and a geneticist. After both parents completed postdoctoral fellowships in San Diego in 1962, my father took a faculty position in the Physics Department at Yale, and so the family moved to New Haven, Connecticut.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man can't pass on, like a mother could, an awareness of your body, or sensuality, or what it means to be a woman. I was never taught what femininity was. I learnt it - or rather I invented it - on my own. I tended not to talk at all, if people were staring at me.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere and I feel like I'm sometimes the aunt, the grandmother, the mother, the sister. They all know me. But it's not supposed to be that way.
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a working mother... You try to pay the bills, you try to keep your life going and there's pressure.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My husband doesn't listen because his mother didn't make him listen. What am I going to do, beat him? I mean: firstborn of a southern family? Firstborn boy? Please. I mean, I love him to death, but is he going to take the garbage out? No.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.
- Haul
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the good days, my mother would haul out the ukulele and we'd sit around the kitchen table - it was a cardboard table with a linoleum top - and sing.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.
- Attending
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to style myself, as my first job out of university was working at 'Vogue' magazine in NYC, and I grew up attending the collections with my mother, so I have a particular aesthetic, which is classic glamour with a twist.
- Want
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be respected as a woman, as a mother, as a wife. That's why I transition.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother had people lay hands on me to cast demons out of me when I was 8. Then two or three times when I was in college.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the church. My mother was highly religious. I was singing at the age of five for big congregations.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother had me when she was 16, and that was an issue that had to be dealt with. She grew up in a very religious background, and there was a lot of discussion of what they should do with this unborn child. But here I am, and thank goodness.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020