Koren Zailckas quote: "What makes a narcissistic mother so scary? Her absolute power and controlling influence. A narcissistic mother is your only 'friend,' at least until you're old enough to go to school."

There's a definition of narcissism that when a parent is narcissistic, instead of the child seei...
SUSAN SULLIVAN

Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until y...
NATASHA LEGGERO

It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON

It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON

We all show facets, to your mother, or to your boyfriend, or a friend. You're always a bit diffe...
EVA GREEN

I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX

You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fi...
HOWARD STERN

Sometimes, I look out at nature and I think, 'Everything here is obeying my conjecture.' It&...
GEOFFREY WEST

I think it is important to be a friend to your kids. But it is also equally important to set boundar...
KARISMA KAPOOR

I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about th...
AIMEE MANN

A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.
RAQUEL CEPEDA

We're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic...
ANNE LAMOTT

If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
PAT PAULSEN

I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic.
BJORK

Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're ...
LAURA BENANTI

Good luck to you if you're lucky enough to have faith. Some of us aren't lucky enough. My mo...
LIAM CUNNINGHAM

Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. ...
AMY POEHLER

About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS

You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only...
RICK RIORDAN

I started on the clarinet. I was going to a music school - my mother took me - and the guy said, ...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST

What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL

My mother talked about the stories I used to spin as a child of three, before I started school. I wo...
LUPITA NYONG'O

Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don...
DAN SAVAGE

I read so many things because a colleague or a friend will post something, and I'll be able to l...
OLIVIA WILDE

You know, I'm a really individualistic person. I'm extremely narcissistic and egocentric, to...
MARJANE SATRAPI

Starting a new job is always scary, or at least for me it's always scary. It's like the firs...
SEAN MAHER

My mother-in-law's from Norway, and she's always liked old-school remedies.
LINDSEY VONN

For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a...
XAVIER RUDD

When you're an actor in grade school, high school, college, whatever, you start to realize what ...
BRYAN CRANSTON

At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person, don't forget you're a moth...
INDRA NOOYI

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intell...
MAYA ANGELOU

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
OPRAH WINFREY

I think the best time to approach a woman is actually after her workout. When you're working out...
NIKKI BELLA

It's hard enough to be a middle-school kid, because you're dealing with so many facets of yo...
RICK RIORDAN

If you're big at school, you've really got two choices. You're going to be a target. If ...
JAMES CORDEN

Childhood is so important. Without a loving one, you're vulnerable throughout your life. We'...
JAMES FOX

When you're a pro athlete, life is very narcissistic - everything relates back to you and how yo...
ABBY WAMBACH

There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really under...
PHYLICIA RASHAD

My mother-in-law has come round to our house at Christmas seven years running. This year we're h...
LES DAWSON

When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kin...
ELLEN BARKIN

Your father tells you a story when you're a kid, or your mother or your uncle or whoever it is. ...
DAVID CHASE

I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does ...
ELLEN BARKIN

In the case of maternal health care, you look at, well naturally, it's the mother who's the ...
JACQUELINE NOVOGRATZ

If you're old enough to father a child, then you're old enough to accept financial responsib...
DOUG DUCEY

Everybody seems to be wasting their time online. There is such a narcissistic attitude. It's suc...
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to b...
ZIG ZIGLAR

My mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything s...
BONNIE TYLER

Even losing my mother, I wanted my mother. That's who you want instinctually when you're hav...
TIG NOTARO

I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ...
RICK RIORDAN

It's frightening, the way life speeds up. When you're at school, time can't go fast enou...
BRUCE FORSYTH

It's much more work for the mother of an autistic child to have a job, because working with an a...
TEMPLE GRANDIN

I have heard, 'Never go to bed angry,' and that makes sense. Unless you're always checki...
DIPLO

You're not ethnic enough. You're not fat enough. You're not thin enough. You're not ...
NIA VARDALOS

Very often, people talk about mothers, and they think that mother has to lose her sexuality. Mother ...
SHERYL LEE RALPH

Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and...
JACK HUSTON

Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mot...
TOM SHALES

I used to sneak into my mother's closet and try to wear her lingerie to school.
VANITY

You can't really class all reality shows together. For instance, 'Top Chef' is about tal...
SIENNA GUILLORY

It's bizarre to have both a super-connected and disconnected world. Like, you can use Twitter in...
PETE WENTZ

I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because ...
HARRIET WALTER

My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother ...
SAFFRON ALDRIDGE

Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, whi...
VERA WANG

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn'...
ERMA BOMBECK

When you're at your absolute, most exhausted... That's when you have to be at the top of you...
BILL HADER

I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's payi...
CHRIS MATTHEWS

In 'Laurence Anyways,' Nathalie Baye is Laurence's mother, and she is quite an awful mot...
XAVIER DOLAN

Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
LUCAN

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
LUCAN

I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her be...
QUINCY JONES

I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow...
PAT CONROY

When you're with your wife, you don't say I love you to your wife every day but the ways you...
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS

My mother was a stay-at-home mom until I was about 11, when she got a job - and it was like a light ...
ALLISON PEARSON

My best friend and I go to bed at 11 o'clock. We have such old lady schedules. Everyone's al...
BRITT ROBERTSON

Not to be narcissistic, but I truly believe in order to make yourself better, you should see what yo...
JAKE OWEN

My mother is not a CIA agent, but she's an Italian mother, and she'd do anything for her son...
ADRIANO GIANNINI

It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic chara...
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Anyone can become a game show host. It simply requires a giant, narcissistic ego and an inability to...
KURT BRAUNOHLER

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can...
VIVIEN LEIGH

I think it's important to remember that you go into something like marriage knowing that you don...
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE

Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a...
EDITH HEAD

That's what makes it so fun to be on a team. You're sitting at your house, thinking up this ...
BILL WALTON

Oh, my goodness, when you're a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and -...
JONI EARECKSON TADA

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth...
BEN AFFLECK

When I asked my mother why crowds shouted my name and said 'We love you,' she would dust it ...
SHIRLEY TEMPLE

You do a period of go-karting until you're at the age of qualifying for a ride in a 'school-...
MARIO ANDRETTI

I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcis...
OMAR SHARIF

What's really scary about the original 'Blair Witch' is that it doesn't really answe...
ADAM WINGARD

It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the 'bad girl' or the 'good girl'...
ANNETTE BENING

My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, ...
MACKENZIE PHILLIPS

Would not obeying to my mother's warnings, who is at least 25 years older than me, be returning ...
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK

As a kid, I'd eat at my mother's house, then go down the road to my girlfriend's and eat...
BRUCE SMITH

I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said...
NICOLAS CAGE

Anger does not solve problems - anger only makes things worse. I go by the old saying, 'Don'...
LIONEL SOSA

What makes a narcissistic mother so scary? Her absolute power and controlling influence. A narcissistic mother is your only 'friend,' at least until you're old enough to go to school.

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What makes a narcissistic mother so scary? Her absolute power and controlling influence. A narcissistic mother is your only 'friend,' at least until you're old enough to go to school.

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