#moth

I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don't think I should have to play a young mother on crack to prove it. ↗

— Hilary Duff

#dramatic #dramatic roles #handle #i #i can

As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#aretha #aretha franklin #child #depressed #franklin

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#aspiration #children #competence #fathers #highest

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

— Jan de Bont

#always #control #had #her #i

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#how #i #just #kinda #knew

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#carriers #confines #culture #every #his

I am truly my mother's son. ↗

— David Geffen

#am #i #i am #mother #son

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#about #ago #brash #career #century

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. ↗

— George Eliot

#began #face #life #loving #mother

The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed. ↗

— Paul Engle

#christmas #christmas eve #eve #hand #i