#moth

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#celebrity #clothes #collector #designed #hands

I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#birth control #control #had #her #i

Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it. ↗

— Imelda Staunton

#appeared #because #being #big #comforted

Motherhood was my career. I'm totally satisfied with that. ↗

— Ann Romney

#i #motherhood #satisfied #totally

Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#believe #day #every #every day #four

My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer. ↗

— Jan Hammer

#jazz singer #mother #performs #she #singer

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#art #like #mother #nothing #sing

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave. ↗

— Spalding Gray

#because #committed #convinced #grave #i

My father is Swedish and my mother is French. ↗

— Eva Green

#french #mother #swedish

I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#career #father #had #i #man