"My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated."

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"My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated."

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"My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply."

Christopher Durang, American Playwright

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"I have many memories of waking up to eat breakfast that my mother carefully prepared for us and her saying, what do y'all want for lunch, and as we're eating lunch, what do y'all want for dinner? It's always about the next meal."

Lisa Loeb, American Musician

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"I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping."

Patricia Heaton, American Actress

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"My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me."

King George V, British Royalty

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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Mother, Blessing, Love

"Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard."

Al Lewis, American Actor

Mother, Sense, Struggle

"My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior."

Lorna Luft, American Actress

Mother, Behavior, Years

"My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles."

Hedy Lamarr, Austrian Actress

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"Necessity, the mother of invention."

George Farquhar, Irish Dramatist

Mother, Invention, Necessity

"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children."

Jessica Lange, American Actress

Mother, Children, Motherhood, State

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"My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply."

"I have many memories of waking up to eat breakfast that my mother carefully prepared for us and her saying, what do y'all want for lunch, and as we're eating lunch, what do y'all want for dinner? It's always about the next meal."

"I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping."

"My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me."

"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."

"Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard."

"My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior."

"My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles."

"Necessity, the mother of invention."

"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children."

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"My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store."

"I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad."

"It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple."

"I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life."

"I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song."

"We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water; and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one."

"Not many people know what their parents sound like having sex. It was noisy."

"I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne."

"I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden."

"Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something."