Family: Mother Quotes

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"It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter, Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!"

Fay Wray, Actress

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

Siobhan Fahey, Musician

"I always knew I wanted to have children"

Cindy Crawford, Model

"Everything changes as a mother. Yes, work has changed. The projects that I choose are even more important to me now. The world he's growing up in and the kind of stimulus that is out there. They are so precious and I'd do anything to protect him"

Jennifer Connelly, Actress

"The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters"

Carol P. Christ, Educator

"My mom put me in a Pampers commercial on TV"

Christian Slater, Actor

"My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper"

Amy Sedaris, Actress

"I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life"

Jan de Bont, Director

"For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible"

Alison Lohman, Actress

"It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else"

Suzanne Vega, Musician

"I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy"

Toni Braxton, Musician

"My mother's father drank, and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her"

John Hurt, Actor

"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found"

Calvin Trillin, Journalist

"I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh"

Jenny McCarthy, Model

"Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong"

Barry White, Musician

"This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother, might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case"

Albert Claude, Scientist

"My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs"

Philip Levine, Poet

"Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still"

Nancy Friday, Author

"Apparently I'm the most naked that anyone's been on TNT. My poor mother. I'm ready to run away"

Sheryl Lee, Actor

"My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies"

June Allyson, Actress

"I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin"

Norma Shearer, Actress

"Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives"

Jill Scott, Musician

"An agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT, but my mom was like, no, she's too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldn't stand hearing me any more!"

Marla Sokoloff, Actor

"My mother, she's like, she can work on herself"

Nicole Sullivan, Actress

"My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books"

Alejandro Amenabar, Director

"I remember my mom dressed like Janis Joplin"

Bryan White, Musician

"But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn't having it. She was like, you're not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you're going to be out of luck"

Shemar Moore, Actor

"I have many memories of waking up to eat breakfast that my mother carefully prepared for us and her saying, what do y'all want for lunch, and as we're eating lunch, what do y'all want for dinner? It's always about the next meal"

Lisa Loeb, Musician

"When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became"

Jill Scott, Musician

"My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her"

Amy Jo Johnson, Actress

"I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?"

Sam Sheppard, Scientist

"It's the best thing ever - I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority"

Stephanie Mills, Musician

"She was a genius, my mother"

Sally Kirkland, Actress

"My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised"

Robin Wright Penn, Actress

"I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart and wicked"

Sigourney Weaver, Actress

"Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me"

Ruby Wax, Comedian

"I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home"

Ruby Wax, Comedian

"Being a mother is hard, and it wasn't a subject I ever studied"

Ruby Wax, Comedian

"When I was 4, my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there"

Martina Hingis, Athlete

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