Motherhood Quote by Fay Wray

Nostalgia tries to sneak in through the side door here, but Fay Wray keeps it on a short leash. "It was good for us, I suppose" is the sound of someone refusing the tidy narrative of suffering-as-upgrade while still feeling the social pressure to pay tribute to adversity. That "I suppose" does a lot of work: it signals distance, a performer’s instinct for understatement, and the uncomfortable fact that hardship often gets retroactively framed as character-building because the alternative is admitting it simply hurt.

The phrasing also splits the self in two. There is the adult voice, offering a culturally approved takeaway ("Those kinds of times produce qualities in us..."), and the child’s reality beneath it: "My parents were not getting along". The pivot is abrupt, almost unedited, which is what makes it feel honest. She isn’t narrating a melodrama; she’s inventorying a household climate.

Then comes the quietest, sharpest detail: her mother "was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed". That line tilts the story from generic family discord into a portrait of control. The passive construction ("were being developed") suggests friendships as something organic, even necessary, met with resistance anyway. It implies a mother policing not just behavior but escape routes - the relationships that might have offered the child privacy, solidarity, or a separate life.

Contextually, for a woman who became famous as a scream-queen icon, the quote hints at an earlier training in emotional containment: learning to normalize instability, to make it presentable, to survive by shaping pain into a palatable lesson. That’s not inspiration; it’s coping rendered articulate.