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“I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.”

Important School Mother Teacher Daughter

“I was the eldest daughter with these four beautiful younger sisters with ringlets and pretty faces, and I used to dress them up in Victorian clothes and take them out for the day and pretend they were mine.”

Beautiful Faces Used Mother Four Mines Clothes Daughter Dresses Victorian Eldest Pretty Face Younger Sister Eldest Daughter

Author:Sadie Frost

“I was working full time and going to school at night and on the weekends. It was just crazy. At one point a month had gone by, and Marc - my then boyfriend, now husband, and I hadn't gone out on a date. I was like, I don't want to be this person. I want to be a person who cares where she's investing her time and energy. And I want to be a good wife, daughter, and friend.”

Want Persons Care School Mother Night Energy Gone Wife Crazy Months Husband Daughter Investing Weekend Who Cares Time And Energy Good Wife

Author:Chelsea Clinton

“I work, and then whenever I have any other time, I'm with my daughter, and then I go to sleep. I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep. That's basically how we're doing it.”

Thinking Children Dream Mother Sleep Activity Daughter Adults Our Children Your Children Abandon My Daughter Going To Sleep

Author:Tina Fey

“I worry that by losing my temper so much and being so harsh and yelling so much that, by example, I will have taught my daughters to be that way, and I'm now constantly telling them not to do that.”

Way Mother Worry Example Taught Losing Daughter My Daughter Temper Harsh Yelling

Author:Amy Chua

“I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.”

Care Mother Worry Taken Daughter My Daughter

Author:Rachel Roy

“I would infinitely prefer a daughter.”

Mother Daughter Mother Daughter

Author:Maurice Sendak

“I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.”

Mother College Daughter Teenager My Daughter

Author:Loni Anderson

“I'd like to think I'm a normal sort of guy, but go to my mum and she'll probably say, 'You know,Chris was always the daughter out of my three boys.'”

Thinking Knows Mother Guy Three Boys Normal Daughter Mum

Author:Chris Hemsworth

“I'd love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who's in the middle of her teens, I'm now thinking: Is this a time to start all over again or is this a time to realise those child-rearing years are over?”

Thinking Years Children Mother Middle Daughter Realising Teens Daisies Child Rearing Rearing A Child Having A Daughter

Author:Joely Richardson

“I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.”

Mother Daughter Raises Albums My Daughter Nun

Author:Brandy Norwood

“I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.”

Ifs Facts School Jobs Mother Daughter Decided Filmmaker Culinary My Daughter Ingredients Lunch Qualifying Culinary School

Author:Alton Brown

“I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.”

Inspirational Mother Games Class Middle Daughter Former Middle Class My Daughter Softball Housewife

Author:Charlaine Harris

“I'm a proud strict mom and, you know, I'm really proud of the two daughters I've raised. And I'm especially proud of my relationship with them. We're very close. I think we're good friends.”

Thinking Knows Two Mother Mom Proud Daughter Raised Good Friend Strict Two Daughters

Author:Amy Chua

“I'm at the age when my friends have started having kids, and when my first good friend had a baby, the first time I picked up her daughter I spoke in French. I didn't even think about it. It just came out. Maybe it's because it's my mother tongue?”

Thinking Firsts Kids Age Mother Baby Daughter My Friends First Time Tongue Spokes Good Friend Having Kids Mother Tongue

Author:Jessica Pare

“I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.”

Trying Mother Parent Influence Media Son Lessons Messages Daughter Concerned Mother Daughter Instill Insidious Son And Daughter

Author:John Ratzenberger

“I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.”

Ifs Doe Care Mother Father Teacher College Daughter Don't Care I Don't Care My Daughter Graduates Diploma Bathtubs

Author:P. C. Cast

“I'm in a different chapter of my life. As time goes by and I grow older, I find that I need to just be quiet and think. There have been periods when I've locked myself away for days, but now it's different - I'm married and we have a daughter who is in my office the whole time.”

Thinking Needs Has Beens Different Whole Mother Grows Periods Quiet Office Married Daughter Locked Chapters Time Goes By

Author:Martin Scorsese

“I'm in the middle of my own 'Project Runway' challenge given to me by my daughter's preschool. All the parents have to make an outfit for their kids, for school pictures, made entirely out of recycled objects. I can not believe I have homework.”

Believe Made I Can Kids School Mother Given Parent Challenges My Own Middle Objects Projects Daughter My Daughter Can Not Homework Runway Recycled Preschool Project Runway

Author:Busy Philipps

“I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around.”

Want Mother Missing Daughter Teenager My Daughter Want Me Selective

Author:Julie Walters

“I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.”

Want Bigs Mother Fans Daughter Want Me Mother Daughter

Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“I'm not thinking about me that much anymore. Every time I look, I'm looking for my daughter, you know? If I'm in a store, I'm looking at baby clothes. It's so much cuter to find things for her than to find things for me.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Looks Mother Baby Clothes Daughter Stores My Daughter

Author:Alessandra Ambrosio

“I'm old-school. I want to be there to drop off my daughter at school and pick her up.”

Want School Mother Picks Daughter My Daughter Old School

Author:Lisa Loeb

“I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.”

Want I Can Use Mother Normal Daughter Warm Privileged Mother Daughter Our Daughter

Author:Jennifer Garner

“I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good.”

Feels Mother Daughter Feel Good My Daughter Grandparent Good Mother

Author:Paula Cole

“I'm so lucky to be in a situation that I can always have my daughter with me.”

I Can Mother Situation Lucky Daughter My Daughter So Lucky

Author:Izabella Scorupco

“I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.”

Needs Home Mother Daughter Garden Holes My Daughter Hanging Out Very Happy

Author:Uma Thurman

“I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.”

Mother Teacher Daughter Inspired Teenager My Daughter Jealous

Author:Jenny Eclair

“I'm very traditional, believe it or not. My daughters are not allowed to date until they're at least 16 and I'm going to make it 18 for the next one.”

Believe Mother Next Daughter Traditional My Daughter The Next One

Author:Anna Benson

“I've always loved music videos - I used to make my own for bands like Pearl Jam. My favorite directors are Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and Patrick Daughters.”

Used Mother My Own Band Directors Daughter My Favorite Video Pearls Jam Mother Daughter Pearl Jam

Author:Akiva Schaffer

“I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter.”

Children Reason Mother Daughter Medical Shops Mother Daughter

Author:Toni Braxton

“I've got three daughters and I'm going to stand up for them and support them in whatever they want to do.”

Want Mother Three Support Daughter Three Daughters

Author:Angie Harmon

“I've had women tell me that when their daughters see them taking care of themselves, and being defined from within, and thinking for themselves instead of thinking about that silly culture out there, it's powerful modeling.”

Thinking Care Mother Culture Powerful Daughter Silly Defined Modeling

Author:Naomi Judd

“I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement.”

I Can Two Mother Sports Daughter Birthday Looking Forward Two Days

Author:Pete Rose

“I've never returned to the locations. I do remember certain days more clearly than others and certain locations with a sense of nostalgia. Perhaps one day, I'll bring my daughter to see them, if she's interested.”

Ifs Remember Mother Certain One Day Daughter Nostalgia My Daughter Location

Author:Madeleine Stowe

“I've never worried about anything in my life a fraction of the way I worry about my daughter. It's much more than hoping people like the play you're in, or that your outfit doesn't look bad. It's the real deal.”

People Way Looks Real Play Mother Deals Worry Daughter Worried My Daughter Fractions

Author:Michael Shannon

“I've raced on all seven continents at least twice. I've probably run thousands of races. But the single race that I'm most proud is a 10K. Yes, a 10K. I ran it with my daughter on her 10th birthday.”

Running Mother Race Proud Daughter Seven Ran My Daughter Continents

Author:Dean Karnazes

“I've tried really hard to care about things that were very different from my parents. I was curious if I could care about [money] on some fundamental level, and I couldn't. That wasn't the metric of success I wanted in my life. I've talked about this to my friends who are doctors and whose parents are doctors, or who are lawyers and their parents are lawyers. It's a funny thing to realize I feel called to this work both as a daughter and also as someone who believes I have contributions to make.”

Ifs Feels Believe Different Hard Care Wanted Mother Parent Realizing Levels Daughter My Friends Doctors Fundamentals Lawyer Curious Contribution If I Could Funny Things Metrics

Author:Chelsea Clinton

“If I want my daughter to try something, I eat it in front of her repeatedly without forcing the issue and, with some trial and error, the world is our oyster!”

Ifs World Want Trying Mother Issues Fronts Daughter Errors Trials My Daughter Oysters Trial And Error

Author:Alexandra Guarnaschelli

“If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her!”

Ifs Want Mother One Day Models Daughter My Daughter

Author:Adriana Lima

“If people think I'm just the boss's daughter, they're deceived.”

People Ifs Thinking Mother Daughter Boss Deceived

Author:Ivanka Trump

“If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it.”

Ifs Trying Age Mother Teach Study Daughter Investing My Daughter Not Afraid Chloe

Author:Donna Mills

“In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a mother who, as mine did, has three daughters, no sons, is supposed to go and hang herself, kill herself, because it is such an unlucky kind of motherhood to have.”

Kind Mother Three Trouble Mines Son Daughter Motherhood Desirable Unlucky Three Daughters

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.”

Way Mother Son Daughter Ancient Greece Son And Daughter Ancient Greece

Author:Nia Vardalos

“In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my brother at 30, my daughter at 5.”

Mother Brother Daughter Adults My Family Angry My Brother My Daughter Sudden Death

Author:Ann Hood

“In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash.”

World Hard Home Today Mother Desire Order Figures Produce Cold Daughter Cash Manipulate Our Daughter Your Daughter Marketers Today's World Deep Desire

Author:Maggie Gallagher

“In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu, Bengali-speaking, and middle-class. I didn't expect myself to ever disobey or disappoint my father by setting my own goals and taking charge of my future.”

Men Mother Father Goal My Own Class Middle Daughter Setting Traditional Settings Middle Class Neighborhood My Future Disappoint Bengali Taking Charge Patriarch

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.”

Feels Whole Mother Sides Daughter Grandmother My Daughter Uncles Cousin Aunt Krishna Single Mother

Author:Padma Lakshmi

“It breaks my heart that I don't see my daughters every day, don't get to hug them and brush their hair.”

Heart Mother Break Hair My Heart Daughter My Daughter Hug Brushes Breaking My Heart

Author:Angie Harmon

“It has given me a global vantage point, being the daughter of immigrants from China, who had nothing when they came here. And now I am leading a company. It speaks to something deep in me, the concept that you don't have to start with anything.”

Mother Speak Given Company Daughter Concepts China Immigrants Here And Now Vantage Point

Author:Andrea Jung

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