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SHEENA EASTON I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my moth...
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JUDITH BUTLER I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.
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I wasn't raised going to synagogue. My mother wasn't brought up with that, so I wasn't brought up wi...
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My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family: my husband and daughter, but also my mother, m...
SIRI HUSTVEDT![]()
While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.
A. R. RAHMAN My father was a Jewish immigrant who settled in Argentina and was left to his own devices at the age...
CESAR MILSTEIN![]()
I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
BEN ELTON My mother died young. A lot of people wanted us to be adopted out, but before she died, my mother as...
EMMA BIEL![]()
My daughter Gabby very kindly once said that she thinks I was a better mother because I was doing a ...
DONNA KARAN My grandfather died in 1952. I never did meet him, but I did meet my grandmother and my aunts, who l...
TRUDI RENWICK![]()
My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he s...
JESSIE WARE![]()
I called my son Jett and I wanted to call my daughter Qantas but my wife wouldn't let me.
JOHN TRAVOLTA![]()
My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would...
ISIDOR ISAAC RABI![]()
My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French ex...
JOAN COLLINS I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.
BRANDY NORWOOD I was brought up a Jew but, you know, that way of being Jewish - the New York way. We were stomach J...
HOWARD JACOBSON I tried to get my mother to move in with me, but she wanted to stay in her own home. When my mother ...
CAROL REBELLO I tried to get my mother to move in with me, but she wanted to stay in her own home. When my mother ...
CAROL S. REBELLO Take my family - I have two brothers, his brother, a son and daughter, our house and my mother and o...
JEANNETTE ALFONSO![]()
My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the person...
CAROLINE RHEA I love to hang out with my friends and go to the movies. My mom and I are involved in the Mother/Dau...
HAILEE STEINFELD The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges ...
CAROL P. CHRIST![]()
My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, m...
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART I feel like that for some reason, internally, that as a mother that it's possible that my daughter w...
GARY CONDIT![]()
I am a Jewish mother. My dying words will be, “Put a jumper on
AMANDA CRAIG![]()
Women have always ruled my life, be it my mother, my wife, my assistant, or my daughter, so I don...
JON BON JOVI My heart breaks watching you grow older and to think our roles will reverse. When I am laying in bed...
RITA MARIA DIAZ![]()
I am humbled and honored to receive the Genesis Prize, recognizing not just my professional achievem...
ITZHAK PERLMAN![]()
You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but i...
LYNN JOHNSTON![]()
My mother has never approved of high heels. As a result, I have never been able to walk in high heel...
EMMA THOMPSON![]()
My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.
LORNA LUFT![]()
On my daughter's first day of kindergarten, another mom said something that made me realize I ha...
NIA VARDALOS I told my son [Dustin] and daughter if they wanted to compete, I would compete with them and they de...
KAREN CAMPBELL My father's Jewish. My mother's Jewish. I'm Jewish.
DANIEL PEARL If you raise your daughter as a diamond, she will become a glass as a wife.
VIKRANT PARSAI![]()
It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully direc...
FAY WRAY![]()
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took ...
SANDRA CISNEROS The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt ve...
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Chri...
KARY MULLIS I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she coul...
IMELDA STAUNTON My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business ...
CARMEN BUSQUETS I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.
JULIE WALTERS I wanted to share my doubts and my culinary, amorous, and cosmic experiences. So I wrote 'Like W...
LAURA ESQUIVEL My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of t...
LIONEL BLUE![]()
I'm familiar with some of the cases he was involved in, and I wanted to pay my respects.
CHRISTOPHER LEE My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in I...
GEORGE WOODCOCK Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make. The nice...
LETA GANDOLFINI Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make, ... The ...
JAMES GANDOLFINI teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li...
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My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in Ca...
CAITLIN FLANAGAN![]()
I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.
LONI ANDERSON My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.
BERNIE WORRELL![]()
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be c...
NORA EPHRON![]()
If my daughter, Liza, wants to become an actress, I'll do everything to help her.
JUDY GARLAND![]()
I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter...
ABDULLAH OF SAUDI ARABIA My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in...
NORMAN LAMM Rachel: Oh my God. I've become my father. I've been trying so hard not to become my mother, I didn't...
FRIENDS My mother sat a vigil for the Rosenbergs; my oxymoronic father was a Jewish racist. I had uncles who...
ARTHUR SHAPIRO![]()
My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. Wh...
JOAN COLLINS![]()
And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to ...
GLORIA VANDERBILT![]()
I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.
GABOUREY SIDIBE![]()
I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my siste...
NATE ROBINSON The mother said to her daughter, "Daughter, bid thy daughter tell her daughter that her daughter's ...
GEORGE HOKEWELL (HAKEWELL) When i see how amazing my mother is with all her grandchildren, i realise how patient and understand...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and s...
WENDY DAVIS The women I love most are Latina - my sister, mother, and daughter. They're spontaneous but spen...
WILLIAM LEVY My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people ...
AMIRI BARAKA![]()
Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, w...
ETHEL WATERS![]()
There've been a few mother-daughter movies that are somewhat realistic. But the mother-son movie...
ALBERT BROOKS I started about two and a half years ago because my daughter wanted to come skating.
MAUREEN BERK![]()
Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends...
C.G. JUNG![]()
I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I...
DOROTHY HAMILL![]()
I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes...
BRENE BROWN I had always known that I was Jewish - we celebrated the holidays, we went to a synagogue - but I ha...
CAROLINE LEAVITT![]()
When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as ...
VERA FARMIGA My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer'...
FAYE DUNAWAY![]()
When my daughter Zulekha was born, I was at the pinnacle of my working life as a model, and I pulled...
IMAN I wanted to get my diabetes under control. I lost my mother to diabetes and a stroke.
VIOLET STARK![]()
I made up my mind that not only would I become a millionaire, but that I would also raise up million...
SUNDAY ADELAJA![]()
When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict,...
TERRI APTER My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicag...
WESLEY CLARK![]()
At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My fath...
MICHAEL CAINE![]()
My daughter is my passion and my life.
TAMARA MELLON My grandmother has dementia, and my mother is looking after her as her primary caregiver. Seeing the...
FELICITY JONES I watched her mother sobbing over her dying daughter. We walked out into the hallway and Mary said t...
DAVID GIBBS Ive loved you my whole life, I just didnt know it until now
~ANYA SUNDQUIST~ Where we had no armed guards, they have now appeared. Police are patrolling every synagogue and ever...
BORUKH GORIN When we lived in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, my sister and I did a local play. My whole family got...
DANIELLE PANABAKER![]()
I wanted to share my love of coffee with a wider audience and also continue to raise money for The T...
CONNOR FRANTA In my prior daily routine in Santiago, where the Jewish population is quite small, my main contacts ...
MATIAS MONDSCHEIN I was just blessing God. As a mother, I was terrified. But now, instead of weeping and thinking that...
JUANITA JOHNSON![]()
I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daug...
TORI AMOS![]()
After I moved with my mother to St. Louis, my older sister and I went to see Ike Turner, who was the...
TINA TURNER![]()
When I went to college, I went to a junior college. I wanted to go to the University of Alabama but ...
DEONTAY WILDER![]()
Even losing my mother, I wanted my mother. That's who you want instinctually when you're hav...
TIG NOTARO![]()
I love my son, but my daughter has calmed me down.
RICARDO ANTONIO CHAVIRA![]()
He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin.
ENGLISH PROVERB My father's Jewish, so my world is Jewish whenever I go home.
BEN FELDMAN
SHEENA EASTON I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my moth...
CAROLINE LEAVITT
My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfathe... JUDITH BUTLER I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.
ZIYI ZHANG
I wasn't raised going to synagogue. My mother wasn't brought up with that, so I wasn't brought up wi... SASHA COHEN
My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family: my husband and daughter, but also my mother, m... SIRI HUSTVEDT
While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer. A. R. RAHMAN My father was a Jewish immigrant who settled in Argentina and was left to his own devices at the age...
CESAR MILSTEIN
I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother. BEN ELTON My mother died young. A lot of people wanted us to be adopted out, but before she died, my mother as...
EMMA BIEL
My daughter Gabby very kindly once said that she thinks I was a better mother because I was doing a ... DONNA KARAN My grandfather died in 1952. I never did meet him, but I did meet my grandmother and my aunts, who l...
TRUDI RENWICK
My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he s... JESSIE WARE
I called my son Jett and I wanted to call my daughter Qantas but my wife wouldn't let me. JOHN TRAVOLTA
My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would... ISIDOR ISAAC RABI
My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French ex... JOAN COLLINS I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.
BRANDY NORWOOD I was brought up a Jew but, you know, that way of being Jewish - the New York way. We were stomach J...
HOWARD JACOBSON I tried to get my mother to move in with me, but she wanted to stay in her own home. When my mother ...
CAROL REBELLO I tried to get my mother to move in with me, but she wanted to stay in her own home. When my mother ...
CAROL S. REBELLO Take my family - I have two brothers, his brother, a son and daughter, our house and my mother and o...
JEANNETTE ALFONSO
My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the person... CAROLINE RHEA I love to hang out with my friends and go to the movies. My mom and I are involved in the Mother/Dau...
HAILEE STEINFELD The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges ...
CAROL P. CHRIST
My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, m... WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART I feel like that for some reason, internally, that as a mother that it's possible that my daughter w...
GARY CONDIT
I am a Jewish mother. My dying words will be, “Put a jumper on AMANDA CRAIG
Women have always ruled my life, be it my mother, my wife, my assistant, or my daughter, so I don... JON BON JOVI My heart breaks watching you grow older and to think our roles will reverse. When I am laying in bed...
RITA MARIA DIAZ
I am humbled and honored to receive the Genesis Prize, recognizing not just my professional achievem... ITZHAK PERLMAN
You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but i... LYNN JOHNSTON
My mother has never approved of high heels. As a result, I have never been able to walk in high heel... EMMA THOMPSON
My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt. LORNA LUFT
On my daughter's first day of kindergarten, another mom said something that made me realize I ha... NIA VARDALOS I told my son [Dustin] and daughter if they wanted to compete, I would compete with them and they de...
KAREN CAMPBELL My father's Jewish. My mother's Jewish. I'm Jewish.
DANIEL PEARL If you raise your daughter as a diamond, she will become a glass as a wife.
VIKRANT PARSAI
It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully direc... FAY WRAY
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took ... SANDRA CISNEROS The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt ve...
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Chri...
KARY MULLIS I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she coul...
IMELDA STAUNTON My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business ...
CARMEN BUSQUETS I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.
JULIE WALTERS I wanted to share my doubts and my culinary, amorous, and cosmic experiences. So I wrote 'Like W...
LAURA ESQUIVEL My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of t...
LIONEL BLUE
I'm familiar with some of the cases he was involved in, and I wanted to pay my respects. CHRISTOPHER LEE My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in I...
GEORGE WOODCOCK Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make. The nice...
LETA GANDOLFINI Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make, ... The ...
JAMES GANDOLFINI teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li...
MY TEACHER
My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in Ca... CAITLIN FLANAGAN
I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me. LONI ANDERSON My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.
BERNIE WORRELL
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be c... NORA EPHRON
If my daughter, Liza, wants to become an actress, I'll do everything to help her. JUDY GARLAND
I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter... ABDULLAH OF SAUDI ARABIA My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in...
NORMAN LAMM Rachel: Oh my God. I've become my father. I've been trying so hard not to become my mother, I didn't...
FRIENDS My mother sat a vigil for the Rosenbergs; my oxymoronic father was a Jewish racist. I had uncles who...
ARTHUR SHAPIRO
My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. Wh... JOAN COLLINS
And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to ... GLORIA VANDERBILT
I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter. GABOUREY SIDIBE
I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my siste... NATE ROBINSON The mother said to her daughter, "Daughter, bid thy daughter tell her daughter that her daughter's ...
GEORGE HOKEWELL (HAKEWELL) When i see how amazing my mother is with all her grandchildren, i realise how patient and understand...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and s...
WENDY DAVIS The women I love most are Latina - my sister, mother, and daughter. They're spontaneous but spen...
WILLIAM LEVY My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people ...
AMIRI BARAKA
Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, w... ETHEL WATERS
There've been a few mother-daughter movies that are somewhat realistic. But the mother-son movie... ALBERT BROOKS I started about two and a half years ago because my daughter wanted to come skating.
MAUREEN BERK
Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends... C.G. JUNG
I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I... DOROTHY HAMILL
I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes... BRENE BROWN I had always known that I was Jewish - we celebrated the holidays, we went to a synagogue - but I ha...
CAROLINE LEAVITT
When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as ... VERA FARMIGA My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer'...
FAYE DUNAWAY
When my daughter Zulekha was born, I was at the pinnacle of my working life as a model, and I pulled... IMAN I wanted to get my diabetes under control. I lost my mother to diabetes and a stroke.
VIOLET STARK
I made up my mind that not only would I become a millionaire, but that I would also raise up million... SUNDAY ADELAJA
When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict,... TERRI APTER My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicag...
WESLEY CLARK
At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My fath... MICHAEL CAINE
My daughter is my passion and my life. TAMARA MELLON My grandmother has dementia, and my mother is looking after her as her primary caregiver. Seeing the...
FELICITY JONES I watched her mother sobbing over her dying daughter. We walked out into the hallway and Mary said t...
DAVID GIBBS Ive loved you my whole life, I just didnt know it until now
~ANYA SUNDQUIST~ Where we had no armed guards, they have now appeared. Police are patrolling every synagogue and ever...
BORUKH GORIN When we lived in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, my sister and I did a local play. My whole family got...
DANIELLE PANABAKER
I wanted to share my love of coffee with a wider audience and also continue to raise money for The T... CONNOR FRANTA In my prior daily routine in Santiago, where the Jewish population is quite small, my main contacts ...
MATIAS MONDSCHEIN I was just blessing God. As a mother, I was terrified. But now, instead of weeping and thinking that...
JUANITA JOHNSON
I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daug... TORI AMOS
After I moved with my mother to St. Louis, my older sister and I went to see Ike Turner, who was the... TINA TURNER
When I went to college, I went to a junior college. I wanted to go to the University of Alabama but ... DEONTAY WILDER
Even losing my mother, I wanted my mother. That's who you want instinctually when you're hav... TIG NOTARO
I love my son, but my daughter has calmed me down. RICARDO ANTONIO CHAVIRA
He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin. ENGLISH PROVERB My father's Jewish, so my world is Jewish whenever I go home.
BEN FELDMAN
