#mother

I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky. ↗

— Courtney Love

#am #even #freaky #getting #i

My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#destroyed #garland #had #legend #life

Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#ghosts #her #liza #mother #much

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#class #could #guilt #how #induce

The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#i #loved #me #mother #never

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#birth #death #forward #her #instead

My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#ashes #being #disaster #expected #garland

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#electric #extraordinary #had #her #i

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#behavior #had #her #horrified #last

One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#asked #awe #being #daughter #everyone