#moth

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#asking #because #black #dismiss #dyke

I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we had assembled for so many years; and apart from that reason I hold it dear because it is associated in my memory with my mother. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#assembled #associated #because #church #dear

Everyone has their dates. For me, it's 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before or after this date. It's the year I became an adult. My mother died, and I created my company shortly thereafter. I definitely would not have done it if she hadn't passed away. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#after #away #became #before #company

I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky. ↗

— Courtney Love

#am #even #freaky #getting #i

My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#destroyed #garland #had #legend #life

Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#ghosts #her #liza #mother #much

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#class #could #guilt #how #induce

The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#i #loved #me #mother #never

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#birth #death #forward #her #instead

My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#ashes #being #disaster #expected #garland