#mother

It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#both #career #college #encouraged #especially

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#early #education #four #get #harmony

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#against #back #define #does #every

Because our generation has waited so long to have babies, we feel we've 'discovered' something that women have been doing for thousands of years. I have no illusions that I will be in the same situation as the average working mother. I'm not trying to prove anything - I just want to have kids. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#average #babies #because #been #discovered

I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until my children discover what their friends' mothers make for dinner. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#cook #dinner #discover #figure #friends

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised. ↗

— Robin Wright Penn

#could #gave #how #independence #me

Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels. ↗

— Charles Perrault

#clothes #godmother #gold #her #into

I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#happiness #loss #love #memory #mother

If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies? ↗

— Charles Pierce

#become #ever #i #mother #puppies

I have quite a lot of fans in Holland because that is where my mother is from, in fact I have a fan club there, and the fans don't always get the chance to see us drive the cars because getting to races across Europe isn't always possible for them. ↗

— Nelson Piquet

#always #because #cars #chance #club