#mother

The fact that my mother was on television every week while I was young was occasionally awkward, and often frustrating. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

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Getting caught is the mother of invention. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#getting #invention #mother

Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#people

My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer. ↗

— Danny Aiello

#father #influence #mother #nomadic #person

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

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When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half. ↗

— Gracie Allen

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At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me. ↗

— Tori Amos

#go #i #knew #me #mother

When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone. ↗

— Tori Amos

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During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child. ↗

— Namie Amuro

#could #did #during #grief #i

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

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