#moth

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#any #because #continent #dark #did

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook? ↗

— Ellen Goodman

#always #appreciated #closeness #criticize #distance

Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation. ↗

— Delta Goodrem

#cancer #chemotherapy #even #everything #going

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#fortunately #great #her #i #liar

I'm worried because of my mother, she's going to see my performance and she's quite hard. She's going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they're going to see me like a woman, you know? ↗

— Eva Green

#dad #going #hard #i #know

My mother did movies from the New Wave, but I was quite shocked I didn't know much about that period. Bernado showed us film of the demonstrations of the time. ↗

— Eva Green

#demonstrations #did #film #i #know

Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her. ↗

— Cathy Guisewite

#cuts #daughters #down #her #i

The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public. ↗

— Walter Winchell

#his #like #milton #mother #ones

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house. ↗

— Johnny Winter

#around #had #house #mother #music

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#compassion #fearlessness #flower #greatest #love