#moth

I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother! ↗

— Ellen Burstyn

#arc #grandmother #her #hurry #i

The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice. ↗

— Susan Chira

#burden #consistent #gift #most #motherhood

I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel's security or advances U.S. national interests. ↗

— Lois Capps

#cannot #chemotherapy #children #denying #how

My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day. ↗

— Angela Carter

#been #carrying #day #declared #doctor

My mother's been married many, many times and grew up believing in love like that. It's remarkable. ↗

— Sherilyn Fenn

#believing #grew #like #love #many

My mother won't tolerate any four-letter words. ↗

— Dixie Carter

#four-letter #mother #tolerate #won #words

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint. ↗

— James Fenton

#back #herself #lullaby #mother #ogre

I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her. ↗

— Johnny Cash

#boy #guitar #her #i #knew

He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John's like that. He's a very rare man, a very good man, and I've had a good life with him. I'm proud to be walking in the wake of Johnny's fame. ↗

— June Carter Cash

#fame #father #good #good life #good man

There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man. ↗

— Ana Castillo

#acknowledgement #being #blend #coming #felt