#moth

I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#attack #back #cash #come #earn

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#her #i #idea #intelligence #mother

My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#good #had #hairdressing #me #mother

My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#me #mother #orphanage #seven #years

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right. ↗

— Marjane Satrapi

#i #idiots #laws #made #me

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages. ↗

— Marjane Satrapi

#better #four #had #hard #i

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#did #enemy #ever #fight #history

What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#defending #home #i #i am #mother

My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#friends #her #herself #isolated #met

The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

#earliest #father #happiest #i #john