#moth

I enlisted when I was a boy. The Navy looked after me like my mother. It fed me, took care of me and gave me wonderful opportunities. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#boy #care #enlisted #fed #gave

My first job now is as a mother, everything else is secondary. My kids understand that I am an actress, and they are always so surprised to hear my voice on a cartoon character, or see my face on a video box. If it ever gets to be too much though, the career and the kids, I will simply set the career aside. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#always #am #aside #box #career

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor. ↗

— Matt Damon

#childhood #early #early childhood #education #going

Very early on in writing the series, I remember a female journalist saying to me that Mrs Weasley, 'Well, you know, she’s just a mother.' And I was absolutely incensed by that comment. Now, I consider myself to be a feminist, and I’d always wanted to show that just because a woman has made a choice, a free choice to say, 'Well, I’m going to raise my family and that’s going to be my choice. I may go back to a career, I may have a career part time, but that’s my choice.' Doesn’t mean that that’s all she can do. And as we proved there in that little battle, Molly Weasley comes out and proves herself the equal of any warrior on that battlefield. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#feminism #mothers #equality

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#her #herself #i #i can #killed

There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#bound #children #commitment #family #father

At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home. ↗

— Bill Forsyth

#certainly #glasgow #home #left #moment

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#away #become #child #fully #grow

I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down-to-earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#am #attentive #bigger #changed #circumstances

My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#always #beauty #being #being responsible #believer