#moth

My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back. ↗

— Kate Walsh

#dad #expressive #family #holds #irish

The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it. ↗

— Kerri Walsh

#balancing #being #career #challenge #ever

I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish. ↗

— Julie Walters

#approve #believed #father #felt #foolish

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that. ↗

— Vera Wang

#daughters #ever #great #great respect #i

I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both. ↗

— Vera Wang

#both #doing #either #ended #expected

My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie. ↗

— Vera Wang

#bit #controlled #extremely #flawless #hippie

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#died #eight #father #fells #four

For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country. ↗

— Sela Ward

#care #community #cook #country #died

I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right. ↗

— Chris Ware

#grandmother #had #i #messy #other

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy. ↗

— Chris Ware

#empathy #fortified #gave #grandmother #how