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“She [then nine-year-old daughter Emily] grew up with 'The Rhythm is Gonna Get You,' Well . . . It got her!”

Years Wells Grew Grew Up Daughter Nine Rhythm Nine Years Emily

Author:Gloria Estefan

“I have no fresh-from-the-oven mother-daughter recollections - only the daily creaking of cans being opened and the sucking sound of gelatinous vegetables splurting from their tin-encased vacuums. Her kitchen was filled with smoke and impatience. ... And so I grew up finding my own path, frying what could not be boiled, winging my way through life without recipes.”

Way Mother Sound My Own Path Grew Findings Grew Up Daughter Filled Smoke My Way Kitchen Vegetables Recipes Impatience Vacuums Recollection Mother Daughter Tin Ovens Frying

Author:Patricia J. Williams

“Katherine Sedley was the only daughter and heiress to the libertine poet Sir Charles Sedley, and grew into a thoroughly scandalous lady in her own right.”

Poet Grew Daughter Scandalous Libertine Heiress Only Daughter

Author:Susan Holloway Scott

“My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him.”

Years Firsts Book Born Grew Grew Up Daughter My Daughter

Author:Michael Bond

“I grew up watching science fiction with my dad. It was kind of our little secret. It was our bonding time as father and daughter.”

Kind Littles Father Secret Fiction Grew Dad Grew Up Daughter Science Fiction My Dad Bonding Bonding Time

Author:Katee Sackhoff

“When Michael Jackson, a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich, white woman, married Elvis Presley's daughter the Scientologist. Makes you proud to be an American, dudn't it?”

Black White Poor Boys Rich Grew Proud Married Grew Up Daughter Black Boy Proud To Be An American

Author:Molly Ivins

“I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!”

Thinking Children Book Mother Reading Grew Grew Up Daughter Passionate My Daughter Harry Potter Potters Only Child Plowing

Author:Kate Beckinsale

“In the English language, I can love my car, or my house, or my daughter, or traveling, but in Greek and how I grew up, love is described with different words.”

I Can Different House Language Love Is Car Grew Grew Up Daughter Greek My Daughter English Language

Author:Yanni

“I grew up an only child, so I was so much more adult. My eldest daughter is 10, and I was so much more of an adult than she is. She just doesn't care for the real world. She's not interested.”

World Children Real Care Grew Grew Up Daughter Adults Real World Not Interested Only Child Eldest Eldest Daughter

Author:Samantha Bee

“Demons feed on death and pain madness," Valentine said. "When I kill, it is because I must. You grew up in a falsely beautiful paradise surrounded by fragile glass walls, my daughter. Your mother created the world she wanted to live in and she brought you up in it, but she never told you it was an illusion. And all the time the demons waited with their weapons of blood and terror to smash the glass and pull you free of the lie.”

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Book Ideas Feelings Mother Generations Grew Grew Up Daughter Motherhood Kitchen My Daughter

Author:A. S. Byatt