#moth

My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material. ↗

— Jerry Stiller

#father #fighting #figured #i #if i could

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

My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#dance #dancing #fools #grandmother #had

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#affection #been #caught #class #considered

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#american #american children #children #father #little

It's really hard to balance work and being a mother. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#being #hard #mother #really #work

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#divorce #get #good #good thing #know

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#most #mothers #philosophers

I've been overwhelmed; I was a single mother for a time. ↗

— Kelly Lynch

#i #mother #overwhelmed #single #single mother