#moth

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary. ↗

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#leaning #make #mother #person

My mother told me never explain, never complain. Even as a young actress, I determined I would never give personal interviews, since they made me so uncomfortable. ↗

— Jennifer Jones

#complain #determined #even #explain #give

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#conqueror #favorite #feeling #his #indisputable

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood. ↗

— Rita Wilson

#american #born #father #greek #hollywood

I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person. ↗

— Amy Tan

#forgive #i #learned #me #mother

I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to. My husband is a really fantastic cook. His mother is Italian and if you walk into our house, we assume you're starving. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#consider #cook #dinner #dinner party #drink

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

#get #grandmother #how #i #identify

My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#earn #full #getting #got #had

It's unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they're like a baby - it's not so funny. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#baby #changes #cope #difficult #father

My grandmother always taught me, 'If you don't have a home, family, and church, you don't have anything.' ↗

— Jennifer Hudson

#anything #church #family #grandmother #home