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Source: Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk: As Exhibited in a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice, and Two Years as a Black Nun, in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal

“My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.”

School Law Father Parent Moved East San Francisco Law School

Author:Carre Otis

Source: Beauty, Disrupted: The Carre Otis Story

“My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.”

Play Shows Together Actors Father Parent Grew Mom Mets Grew Up My Mom Actresses Singers Dancer Los Angeles Show Business Show Biz

Author:Micky Dolenz

“My parents were both in the army for 20 years and then worked in government departments; but they had gone through the Great Depression and known lean times. They always remained extremely frugal and lived far below their means.”

Years Mean Government Parent Known Gone Army Department Great Depression Frugal

Author:Veronica Webb

“My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.”

Used Speak Parent Answers Speakers Sibling My Siblings

Author:America Ferrera

“My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.”

Parent Honest Engaged Straightforward

Author:Rob Bell

“My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets.”

Children Father Parent Lines Saws Streets New York Adults Standing Bread Neighborhood Begging Brooklyn Great Depression 1930s Brooklyn New York

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“My parents were Christian.”

Christian Parent Pregnancy

Author:Wyclef Jean

“My parents were civil rights activists, and my mother was active in the feminist movement. Issues concerning marginalized people and especially women of color were what they cared about most in the world.”

People World Mother Parent Issues Rights Movement Color Feminist Active Civil Rights Activist Marginalized Feminist Movement

Author:Anna Holmes

“My parents were comfortable with me exploring areas that they were not proficient in. Some parents just aren't comfortable with that.”

Parent Learning Comfortable Areas Exploring

Author:Mae Jemison

“My parents were constantly afraid they would lose their jobs. The idea that we were always a paycheck away from disaster was drilled into me.”

Ideas Jobs Parent Loses Disaster Paychecks

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“My parents were delighted that I was getting the help I needed, although I did not fully disclose the details of my living situation with them. While I was growing up, my projected role in the family was to always be the strong one. I was the mediator, or “Miss Perfect” as some family members would say, so I was usually clear on what I told them. With my traumatic brain injury, it was a bit different, so I didn’t share much of the daily happenings with my parents, except for the therapy sessions.”

Golf Therapy Traumatic Brain Injury Golf Psychology

Author:Kathleen Klawitter

Source: Direct Hit: A Golf Pro's Remarkable Journey back from Traumatic Brain Injury

“My parents were determined to move into the middle class.”

Moving Parent Class Middle Determined Middle Class

Author:Martin Lewis Perl

“My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' time.”

Children Two Three Parent Devoted Civics Beavers Civic Minded

Author:Sissy Spacek

“My parents were disappointed I didn't finish college, and they were really upset when I went to Hollywood to become an actor. I was a big disappointment to them.”

Bigs Actors Parent College Hollywood Disappointment Upset Disappointed

Author:George Clooney

“My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.”

People Ifs Mother Parent Walks Raised Birthday Shopping Toys My Birthday Carts Honest People Shopping Carts

Author:Vincent Gallo

“My parents were dismayed by my love of horror movies as a young girl, then even more dismayed when I kept rooting for Dracula to win instead of Van Helsing.”

Young Girl Winning Parent Horror Vans Dismayed Van Helsing

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on me has been profound.”

Has Beens Father Grows Parent Growing Up Influence Profound Divorced

Author:Laura Linney

“My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.”

Father Parent Weekend Divorced

Author:Laura Linney

“My parents were divorced and my dad was in the Marines. I lived in California until I was 10 then we moved to Bettendorf, Iowa when I was in the fourth grade. I had an older brother so it made it a little easier to adjust to things.”

Littles Made Parent Brother Dad Easier Moved My Dad Made It California Grades Fourth Marine Divorced Iowa Older Brother Fourth Grade

Author:Robbie Lawler

“My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like I don't remember them ever being together.”

Together Remember Parent Conscious Divorced Being Together

Author:J. Cole

“My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting.”

Young Mother Parent Difficulty Raised Teenager Divorced Single Mother

Author:Michele Bachmann

“My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.”

Young Mother Parent Sides Divorced

Author:Bill de Blasio

“My parents were divorcing, and I think at certain times of your life you do attract the wrong type of person. You don't know any better, and you don't know how you'd like to be treated.”

Thinking Knows Persons Certain Parent Know How Type Treated Time Of Your Life

Author:Lisa Snowdon

“My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that's what my father chose to do.”

Ideas Father Opportunity Parent Space Australia Pounds Sail

Author:Hugh Jackman

“My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.”

Years Different Mother Father Parent Religious Christianity Five Teacher Thirty Five Years Traveled Nigeria Evangelists

Author:Chinua Achebe

“My parents were entirely unpredictable and what they said very unreliable, which meant I became very attuned to the range of other signals human beings give out - body language or what Freud graphically called the "betrayal that oozes out of him at every pore," betrayal, that is, of what they really mean. I have that to this day, and it makes conversation exhausting because I'm listening not just to the words of the person in front of me but also to their body. It's as if there are two radio stations on at the same time.”

Giving Mean Language Parent Listening Betrayal This Day Unpredictable Really Mean Body Language

Author:Zia Haider Rahman

“My parents were entrepreneurs. They ran a small ad agency in upstate New York.”

Parent New York Entrepreneur Ran Agency Ads Upstate New York

Author:Mike McCue

“My parents were European immigrants. They came to the States with $1,500, two suitcases, and me, and they managed to build a business, a family, and a future for their family. They didn't have any of the resources of people who have lived here for two or three generations.”

People Two States Three Parent Generations Resources Immigrants Suitcases Three Generations

Author:Stana Katic

“My parents were exclude from rights as farm workers, though that has to change.”

Parent Change Rights Workers Farms

Author:Julia Serano

“My parents were extraordinarily focused on education. It was the topic of every dinner conversation, is are you number one, are you getting all As, if not, why not. You need to do better. So my entire orientation and focus growing up was around doing your best and making sure that you were going to get the best education possible.”

Ifs Needs Parent Numbers Growing Up Focus Growing Conversation Dinner Focused Why Not Topics Orientation Doing Your Best Best Education Dinner Conversation

Author:Michelle Rhee

“My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.”

Left Parent Streets Terrible Walking Extremes Eight This Life Hated Paris Fake Djs Barefoot Nightclubs Streets Of Paris Walking Barefoot

Author:David Guetta

“My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it.”

Mother Father Parent Dying Acknowledge Reluctant

Author:Roz Chast

“My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.”

Literature Parent Poor Party Grew Grew Up Communist Founders Cuban Communist Party

Author:Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.”

States America Parent United United States Blood Our Family Family Love

Author:Vivien Leigh

“My parents were gardeners themselves, and perforce they used environmental techniques because it was during the war, and you didn't have the new sorts of chemicals.”

War Used Parent Environmental Technique Chemicals Gardener

Author:Margaret Atwood

“My parents were glad to see that my new husband looks like a 'regular guy'-no earring or anything. But really I think a man with an earring is better prepared for marriage. I mean, he's already experienced pain and bought jewelry.”

Thinking Men Looks Mean Pain Guy Parent Husband Prepared Glad Jewelry Earrings

Author:Rita Rudner

“My parents were going out to dinner when I was six or so, and before they left, I felt instantly desperate and went to the bathroom and grabbed my mom's lipstick and put red dots all over my body and then begged them not to go. "I have chicken pox, you can't leave," I said. I remember they both laughed and laughed and then they left. And I cried and couldn't stop. They laughed at me like a was a wacky little child pulling a wacky stunt: kids say the darnedest things, etc. But I think about that night all the time, that little kid desperate for someone to love her, take care of her, spend any time at all with her, make her feel connected to literally anyone or anything and they just laughed. And left.”

Childhood Parents Isolation

Author:Lane Moore

Source: How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don't

“My parents were great in the sense that they treated me like a human being when I was growing up. They showed me how beautiful things can be and how ugly they can be.”

Humans Beautiful Parent Human Beings Growing Up Growing Ugly Treated Beautiful Things

Author:Winona Ryder

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