#moth

I was in control of what people thought of me, but I had no control over what they thought of my mother. When I asked my mother, 'How do I tell people about you?' her answer was, 'Tell the truth'. But of course, the truth is never simple. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#answer #asked #control #course #had

THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#brought #deep #died #event #freighted

So I told Robert from the start that if we couldn't get Charles and Max to take part, but especially Charles, that I didn't want to make the film. So would he call his mother and talk to Charles and see if Charles would at all be interested. ↗

— Terry Zwigoff

#charles #especially #film #get #his

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb. ↗

— Jean Arp

#child #fruit #grows #like #man

These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played. ↗

— Isabella Rossellini

#chances #forget #lot #mother #people

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#before #behave #her #i #less

Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#i #judy #like #mother #read

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#anything #clever #does #far #like

If they had killed by father and my mother and all my friends, yet if they had come to treat of peace, they ought to have gone in peace. ↗

— William Berkeley

#father #friends #gone #had #killed

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#divorce #divorces #four #i #marriage