#moth

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

The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#city #descriptions #everybody #grandmother #identified

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent. ↗

— Joan Blades

#given #manifesto #motherhood #mothers #need

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. ↗