#moth

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#back #chain #chains #drawer #excite

I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#am #creeping #grandmother #i #i am

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#bad girl #become #dead #girl #happiness

And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett. ↗

— Tea Leoni

#favorite #i #just #just do it #know

First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people. ↗

— Tea Leoni

#between #first #first of all #i #kate

Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard. ↗

— Al Lewis

#graduate #had #harvard #many #more

The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#essential #eyebrow #eyelashes #false #feel

The doctor's name was Sylvia. I told her she'd have a problem with me because Sylvia was my mother's name. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#doctor #her #i #me #mother

Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother. ↗

— Peter Malkin

#even #jewish #lie #mother #secret

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess. ↗

— Mariah Carey

#father #guess #i #irish #me