#mother

With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer. ↗

— Betsey Johnson

#battling #been #breast cancer #cancer #daughter

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#cabin #children #cold #comes #dawns

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#died #first #first time #i #learned

I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry. ↗

— Rick James

#angry #basis #beat #bitter #child

I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#christian #christian home #fact #home #i

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else. ↗

— Kiefer Sutherland

#became #between #else #first #had

Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built. ↗

— David Johansen

#built #father #i #lived #mother

I grew up at my grandmother's house and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. ↗

— Elton John

#garden #grandmother #grew #had #hate

I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook. ↗

— Erica Jong

#daughter #i #mother

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes. ↗

— Erica Jong

#forebears #grandfather #living #mother #painted