My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.
One can survive every hurt and move on, except the hatred of a mother formed without reasons, that one could not elucidate.
My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.
I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.
I grew up in New York, and I've always been surrounded by fashion. My grandmother used to write for 'Vogue' in the '50s, and my mother was a dancer and a model.
I like to make Arroz con Gandules, rice with pigeon peas. My husband loves it. It's a Puerto Rican dish my mother taught me.
The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.
Mama and I sat on a burping bus full of chickens in cages, and round-eyed babies on round mothers' laps. (The Pinata-Maker's Daughter)
My mother relied on her memory to do things because she couldn't read. Part of that was not really knowing numbers.
All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.
If I could pass along anything that my mother or my sisters taught me, I feel like my kids would be very well off.
My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it's just kind of been like my habitat.
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother's genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free.
Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.
My mother thinks I'm a national treasure. She's the only one who thinks my Golden Kela award is the greatest gift ever.
Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.
Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.
