Erica Jong Quotes
My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.Erica Jong
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On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.
Ingmar Bergman -
I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
Barbara Bush -
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
Barack Obama -
My mother and I were very close and even when I left home and came to London I would ring her every day. She was very proud of me and loved my celebrity. She would often come to shoots and TV shows with me.
Gail Porter -
I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
Raney Aronson-Rath
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For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother.
Kara Swisher -
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu -
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
Walter Bagehot -
Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family.
Sam Rivers Limp Bizkit -
There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
Patrick Campbell
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Becoming a mother has been the best experience of my life, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Karisma Kapoor -
When I think of my childhood, I see my mother, the complete sixties parent, decked in purple frappe silk caftans, the acidic smell of newly stripped pine mingling with incense.
Hamish Bowles -
My mother often tells me not to drive back home late in the night. But like all youngsters, I suggest that there is nothing to worry. I tell her I have my driver, I have my security.
Rakul Preet Singh -
I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.
Sally Phillips -
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
You blessed my life!Never on me had rested woman's love.My mother even could not find me fair:I had no sister; and, when grown a man,I feared the mistress who would mock at me.But I have had your friendship - grace to youA woman's charm has passed across my path.
Edmond Rostand
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I'm fat! There's nothing else to call it.
Kirstie Alley -
I didn't feel I belonged in so perfect a family.
Michael Reagan -
What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.
Rand Paul -
Fashion can often be dictated. It's what people think we should do or wear. Style is totally personal.
Liz Goldwyn -
My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
Erica Jong