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Mother Quotes
"A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for."
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"For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country."
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"My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York."
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"I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin."
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"Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows."
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"I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays."
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"How old am I? I'm as old as my mother told me. How's that?"
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"I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them. I respect it so much that the sitcom itself and Ed Norton; I'm not playing Ed Norton but my version of it, cause I'm a black man."
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"For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible."
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"A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in."
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"There's no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I'll ever do."
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"My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York."
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"Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully."
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"I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children."
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"Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?"
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"My little sister Aliana's opinions are the most important to me. She says, 'I want to look like you, you're so pretty!' But she is very beautiful and so she is trouble in the making! She wants to do what I do. I'm like her second mother and I am very protective of her."
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"Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante."
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"I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady."
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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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"Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up."
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"I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer."
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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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