#moth

At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me. ↗

— Tori Amos

#go #i #knew #me #mother

When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone. ↗

— Tori Amos

#everything #just #mothers #shatter #start

During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child. ↗

— Namie Amuro

#could #did #during #grief #i

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#different #grandmother #her #invention #law

Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth. ↗

— Mary Antin

#growth #longer #mothers #our #ourselves

I started doing radio commercials for Kmart when I was 4. They had to splice all my consonants together because I couldn't talk very well. But these jobs helped my mother and me put food on the table. It took the two of us working. ↗

— Christina Applegate

#commercials #consonants #doing #food #had

My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#believe #bother #feel #good #great

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#brother #chronicles #comic #comic books #growing

The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre. ↗

— Leon Askin

#entertainment #field #go #interest #loved

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#because #being #capable #i #i am