#mother

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction. ↗

— James Joyce

#allowed #child #coming #coming of age #father

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#also #i #i remember #kid #mother

Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement. ↗

— Joan Blades

#engagement #even #front #grassroots #i

I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that. ↗

— Laura Dern

#anne #ask #bancroft #face #fall

My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother. ↗

— Laura Dern

#bank #bank account #day #extra #first

My mother is incredible. I mean, still is today. ↗

— Manolo Blahnik

#incredible #mean #mother #still #today

My mother has an incredible rigidity, which is very Catholic. ↗

— Manolo Blahnik

#incredible #mother #rigidity #very #which

The greatest shoemaker in England for many, many decades; he used to be the royal shoe-maker for the Queen Mother. This is where I learnt my trade. ↗

— Manolo Blahnik

#england #greatest #i #learnt #many

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#always #college #educated #go #i

I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#ballet #because #chaplin #everything #films