Mother Quotes
  
  
  
	
	- 
	
	
	
		I played a lesbian reporter in 1964, who was incarcerated, and ended the series as a 75-year-old woman. And then, I was a witch blinded by acid who became the Supreme, and took my mother's energy and life, so that I could live and she would die. And then, I was conjoined twins. And then, I played a heroin addict.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sarah Paulson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	- 
	
	
	
		When I was growing up, my mother always wore Chanel.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alice Dellal
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	- 
	
	
	
		Mother, an accomplished musician, taught me to play the piano as a very small girl.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Irene Dunne
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	- 
	
	
	
		My mother read me biblical stories at night.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Malcolm Gladwell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	- 
	
	
	
		I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alan Furst
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	- 
	
	
	
		I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barbara Kingsolver
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
	- 
	
	
	
		When I was a child, my father would read out loud to my brother, my mother, and me. Several times in the course of my childhood, he would read 'Alice and Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' over a few weeks. They were a great favorite with all of us.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jesse Ball
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	- 
	
	
	
		Somewhere deep inside me was the will and determination not only to live, but to be a more present mother for my kids, instead of one who was emotionally unavailable because she was in so much pain, as my own mother was.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alana Stewart
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	- 
	
	
	
		The baby, a girl, is born at 6:24 a.m. She weighs six pounds, ten ounces. The mother takes the baby in her arms and asks her, "Who are you, my little one?" And in response, this baby, who is Liz and not Liz at the same time, laughs.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gabrielle Zevin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	- 
	
	
	
		I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mavis Staples
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	- 
	
	
	
		She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barbara Cooney
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	- 
	
	
	
		It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free and happy in love must have surmounted his respect for women and have come to terms with the idea of incest with his mother or sister.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sigmund Freud
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
	- 
	
	
	
		When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ariel Gore
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	- 
	
	
	
		I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life to Christ. We read about Mother Teresa and what a wonderful example she was.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bill McCartney
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	- 
	
	
	
		It's hard to sleep at night because I'm still wondering where my mother is.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Fred Savage
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	- 
	
	
	
		I picked up the Puerto Rican accent from my father, and my sister picked up my mother's very clear, concise, and slow Mexican-Spanish. So, when she does speak, she speaks with diction. She pronounces every word.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alanna Ubach
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	- 
	
	
	
		One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: 'You put bad words in your books, don't you?' No doubt he had overheard my mother, who often tells people who ask about my work: 'Well, you'll never find her books in the Christian bookstore.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jill McCorkle
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	- 
	
	
	
		I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family. Her father committed suicide. She committed suicide the year before I went to the moon.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Buzz Aldrin