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Mother Quotes
"My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up."
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"Please call your second witness, and then call your mother, she worries."
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"My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent."
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"Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum."
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"My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store."
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"Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts."
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"Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance."
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"The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after."
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"I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked."
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"My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call."
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"My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother."
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"Apparently I'm the most naked that anyone's been on TNT. My poor mother. I'm ready to run away."
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"My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary."
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"My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that."
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"Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children."
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"My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping."
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"My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection."
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"My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg."
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"I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him."
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"When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half."
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"My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt."
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"I was brought up in a whorehouse in Peoria. My mother and father lived there and worked there."
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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."
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"It's my mother's engagement ring so I thought it was quite nice because obviously she's not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all - this was my way of keeping her close to it all."
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"Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her."
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"Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary."
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