#moth

I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word. ↗

— Laura Linney

#cancer #death #even #evolved #grandmother

I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#country #during #empty #family #few

My sister Jennifer is an Emmy winning journalist and mother of three amazing girls. She brings an exceptional dedication to her job, her family, and her community, and has been a role model of mine for many, many years. I'm extremely proud of her. ↗

— Ron Livingston

#been #brings #community #dedication #emmy

My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?' ↗

— Andrew Lo

#died #economist #felt #helpless #i

I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before. ↗

— Kenny Loggins

#back #before #even #father #get

I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#happy #i #mother #rather #wife

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother. ↗

— John Lone

#become #eventually #father #friend #grew

I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way. ↗

— John Lone

#grew #hand #i #i think #insecure

Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have fingernails down your back. She is a nervous wreck. ↗

— Diana Lopez

#because #children #compete #down #fingernails

So I started to relax and would work on my act eight hours a day, sitting at a desk writing at my grandmother's house, and I would put on Richard Pryor Live on Long Beach and would play it like a loop and think and write. ↗

— George Lopez

#beach #day #desk #eight #grandmother