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I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk.
James Patterson

My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.
Alicia Keys

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
Louisa May Alcott

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.
Mariah Carey

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.
Anna Freud

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
Audre Lorde

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.
Diane Arbus

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
Stevie Wonder

There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.
Roseanne Barr

My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive.
Dom DeLuise

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Quentin Crisp

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Quentin Crisp

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.
Stephen Sondheim

They said I was a married mother of two but the record sounded like an indie album and they didn't know how to market it! This country is incredibly sexist, as is the music and media industry.
Siobhan Fahey

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.
Siobhan Fahey

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.
Siobhan Fahey

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
Tallulah Bankhead

I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.
Les Dawson

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.
Sandra Cisneros

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
Giordano Bruno

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