“I grew up not understanding what was true and what was not true. It gave me a sense of unreality. I was told that this man [mom's lover] was not my mother's lover - when he was. I was told he was there as a male babysitter for my brother so that he would learn sports and other manly things.” MenMotherSportsUnderstandingBrotherGrewMomLoversGrew UpMalesMy BrotherManlyUnrealityBabysitter Author:Carly Simon
“Through the process of specifically writing this memoir, there was so much reckoning that I had to do. It was very difficult. It doesn't erase anything that happened, but I think that it was healthy for me to do it. The teenage self-loathing that I suffered from all of a sudden found itself turned into rapids with my grief after my brother died. I turned it inwards. In the same way that my mom processes her grief and her problems. This project, as a memoir, has helped me funnel it outwards.” ThinkingWayWritingSelfProblemFoundProcessDifficultGriefHappenedBrotherMomHealthyProjectsDiedMy MomMemoirMy BrotherTeenageRapidsEraseLoathingSelf LoathingReckoningBrother DiedMy Brother Died Author:Jesmyn Ward
“My mom, my father, my little sisters, and my brother - I don't got that much family. I'm not really a family person. I just do my own thing. But I've just been spending time with my mom, especially since the [September motorcycle] accident happened. I drive all the way down there to Georgia just to check up on her. You just get tired of being that person that you thought you were. I don't feel no different. I see the music, because I made it. I don't really see the fame.” WayFeelsLittlesPersonsMadeDifferentFatherMy OwnHappenedBrotherMomFameMusic IsTiredMy MomSpendingAccidentsChecksMade ItMy BrotherSeptemberGeorgiaMotorcycleSpending TimeLittle Sister Author:Fetty Wap
“In keeping with the theme of "I got my hands on," my brother and I would listen to The Diceman Cometh. That was the dirtiest thing we'd ever heard, and we could listen to that at full volume without fear of penalty, because my mom couldn't hear that either. I wasn't a huge comedy fan growing up, but I definitely listened to Andrew Dice Clay a lot.” HandsGrowing UpComedyGrowingHeardFansBrotherHugeMomMy MomMy BrotherThemeVolumePenaltiesClayAndrewDice Author:Moshe Kasher
“My brother and I both like sarcastic, insulting comedy, so that's a way we communicate. Somehow that's what we learned. My mom is not a really sarcastic person. She's a really sort of overly loving person, and my brother and I came out little cynical bastards.” WayLittlesPersonsComedyBrotherMomCommunicateMy MomMy BrotherSarcasticCynicalInsultingLoving PersonSarcastic Person Author:Moshe Kasher
“Every year my mom takes her 5th grade class on an outdoor education trip, and ever since I was born, I came with her. One thing I remember the most was this long, old rickety bridge held by two redwood trees. In order to get to the camp fire, you had to cross it. Each time I went across I made my brother carry me on his shoulders. It freaked me out sooooo much, even a little now when I think about it.” ThinkingYearsLittlesLongMadeTwoRememberOrderBornClassFireOne ThingTreeBrotherMomCrossesMy MomShouldersBridgesMy BrotherGradesCampsRedwoods Author:Zendaya
“My whole family is in the arts some way or the other. My father was a cellist in a symphony outside Chicago that was a side-job, he was a scientist. My mother was a dancer in New York. She was next-door neighbors with Dorothy Loudon and they moved to New York together. Mom was a dancer in New York for several years before she got married. My sister was a classical pianist. And my brother was a partier. So it all just seemed to work.” WayYearsArtWholeTogetherJobsMotherNextFatherSidesDoorsNew YorkBrotherMomMarriedScientistMovedNeighborMy BrotherDancerChicagoMy SisterSymphonyPianistWhole FamilyNext Door NeighborsCellists Author:Jason Graae
“I grew up in an apartment my whole life. It was just me, my mom, and my brother - she supported us. And we've always liked driving through rich neighborhoods, especially around Christmas. We would always admire the wealth. I always had this strange feeling with it.” WholeFeelingsWealthRichStrangeBrotherGrewMomGrew UpMy MomWhole LifeDrivingAdmireMy BrotherNeighborhoodApartment Author:George Clarke
“When my brother was a child, he kept telling my mom he wanted to be in the box. She didn't get it - he was two or three years old and kept saying he wanted to be in the box. She finally realized he was talking about the television.” YearsChildrenTwoWantedThreeTalkingTelevisionBrotherMomBoxesMy MomMy BrotherThree YearsThree Year Olds Author:Aldis Hodge
“I remember my mom had a conversation with Sam Jackson about what she should do with our careers and what the next step should be; I was eight and my brother was nine. He said, "You need to get them on Broadway."” NeedsShouldSaidRememberNextStepsCareersBrotherMomConversationMy MomEightNineMy BrotherBroadwayNext StepsSam Jackson Author:Aldis Hodge
“In 2002 Mom and I got a chance to act together in a play called 'Pitching to the Star,' with her brother, Robert Lipton. The three of us on the same stage - that was such a special experience for me.” PlayTogetherThreeStarsChanceSpecialStageBrotherMomPitching Author:Rashida Jones
“I watched the video [ with my first commercial] when I was 20, and in the video, there are two families. The first family is this smiling blond Partridge family, a Californian/Aryan kind of thing, all playing guitars, all singing together and harmonizing. And then, there's my family - and in my family, it starts with my mom saying that she feels like a drill sergeant sometimes, and she's yelling at one of my brothers to stop hitting another one of my brothers. It's just like, "Great, we're that family." It felt a little Simpsons versus Flanders.” FeelsFirstsKindLittlesTwoSometimesTogetherFeltBrotherMomSingingMy FamilyGuitarMy MomVideoMy BrotherHittingVersusYellingDrillsPlaying GuitarSergeantsCaliforniansFlandersSinging TogetherDrill Sergeant Author:Mara Wilson
“Being a kid, by the time I was three years old, my mom was married, divorced and had three kids; she was 19 - so, my brother's just older than my mom.” YearsKidsThreeBrotherMomMarriedMy MomMy BrotherThree YearsDivorcedThree Year OldsBeing A Kid Author:Diamond Dallas Page
“My mom had seven kids in seven years, and then she had me 11 years later. So when I was born, my oldest brother was 18. And my youngest brother was 11. By the time I was 7 or 8, everyone had moved out. I went from being with ten people all the time to being an only child. It really freaked me out.” PeopleYearsChildrenKidsBornBrotherMomTenMovedSevenMy MomSeven YearsOnly Child Author:Ryan McGinley
“My support group - my mom, my dad, my sisters, my brothers-in-law, my immediate nieces and nephews, my immediate family like Aunt Donna - I know I can trust them. Most of the other people...they never called me before, they never said "I love you" before, they never wanted to take a picture with me at family reunions. It's like, don't do it now...You win the lottery and all of a sudden everybody's your best friend.” PeopleKnowsSaidI CanWantedLawWinningSupportGroupsLove YouBrotherMomDadMy DadMy MomMy BrotherMy SisterAuntIn-lawsLotteryReunionYour Best FriendNephewNieceFamily ReunionSupport GroupsBrother In LawNiece And NephewImmediate Family Author:Carrie Underwood
“My favorite thing is watching people watch The Hollars movie and then come up to me and say whether they went through an experience like that or they went through an experience nothing like that, but it still was their mom or "that was my brother" or whatever it was - that's great.” PeopleBrotherMomMy FavoriteMy Brother Author:John Krasinski
“There was a piano in my house, and my brother had taken lessons when I was a kid. I don't remember this, but my mom told me she came home one day and I had learned everything he had studied for a year, and I was playing it on the piano.” HomeKidsRememberHouseTakenBrotherMomOne DayMy MomMy Brother Author:Amber Rubarth
“My parents were not musical, but my mom just really wanted my brother and I to learn music as well as practice sports. It's a balance for which I'm thankful. I'm not sure I'm more balanced than anyone, but I'm happier because I can make music and I'm really thankful for that.” SportsParentBrotherMomBalanceMusicalMy MomNot SureMy Brother Author:Olivia Merilahti
“My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily; I learned English in less than a year.” KnowsYearsKidsWantedJobsLanguageParentBrotherMomDadHarderMy DadMy MomMy BrotherBetter LifeBetter Jobs Author:Mila Kunis
“My pops and my mom started playing Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers and all these people, but at the same time, they always had Snoop on right behind it in the same mix.” PeopleBehindsBrotherMomMy MomPopsMarvin Author:Kendrick Lamar