#moth

Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too small ever to contain the experience. ↗

— Kim Edwards

#experience

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else. ↗

— Kiefer Sutherland

#became #between #else #first #had

My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#another woman #busy #helping #her #kept

After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#after #away #could #go #got

But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#brutal #children #even #going #had

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#exceptional #had #herself #literate #mother

You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#abuse #attacking #brutal #child #child abuse

My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#back #because #being #direction #dramatic

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#be real #because #both #children #enough

My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#face #got #grandmother #had #her