“My mother only had a third grade education, was illiterate, worked as a domestic 2 to 3 jobs at a time, because she didn't want to be on welfare, because she never saw people who went on welfare come off of welfare, and she just didn't want to have her life controlled in that fashion.” PeopleWantJobsMotherSawsFashionThirdsWelfareGradesControlledIlliterateThird Grade Author:Benjamin Carson
“I had a mother who was very developed psychically and spiritually. She was, in a way, an opposite of my father, a complete liberal, interested in woman's liberation before it was the fashion.” WayMotherFatherFashionOppositesLiberationRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.” MotherSexBrainWifeFashionLoversCease Author:Honore de Balzac
“My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.” WantChildrenWantedMotherCrazyFashionBrotherMarriedIndependentMy BrotherWant MeBeing MarriedMarried With ChildrenCrazy LifeFashion Business Author:Donatella Versace
“My love of fashion stemmed from my mother's passion for it.” MotherPassionFashion Author:Francisco Costa
“Let the girl be thoroughly developed in body and soul, not modeled, like a piece of clay, after some artificial specimen of humanity, with a body like some plate in Godey's book of fashion, and a mind after the type of Father Gregory's pattern daughters, loaded down with the traditions, proprieties, and sentimentalities of generations of silly mothers and grandmothers, but left free to be, to grow, to feel, to think, to act. Development is one thing, that system of cramping, restraining, torturing, perverting, and mystifying, called education, is quite another.” ThinkingFeelsMindBookSoulBodyMotherHumanityGirlFatherLeftGrowsFreedomPiecesGenerationsOne ThingFashionTypeDevelopmentDaughterTraditionPatternsSillyGrandmotherArtificialPlatesClayLoadedSentimentalityProprietyRestrainingMother And Grandmother Book:History of woman suffrage Source: History of woman suffrage
“In the early forties and fifties almost everybody "had about enough to live on," and young ladies dressed well on a hundred dollars a year. The daughters of the richest man in Boston were dressed with scrupulous plainness, and the wife and mother owned one brocade, which did service for several years. Display was considered vulgar. Now, alas! only Queen Victoria dares to go shabby.” MenYearsWellsEnoughYoungMotherWealthWifeFashionDaughterHundredDollarsDareQueensFortyDisplayVulgarAlasBostonVictoriaYoung LadiesShabbyWives And MothersPlainness Author:M. E. W. Sherwood
“I want my mother to think - she's a tough fashion critic.” ThinkingWantMotherFashionToughCritics Author:Eva Mendes
“I'm now a pretty good mix of my mother and my stepfather because I'm in general pretty mellow. I'm not hyper-emotional. But there's also this side of me - my mother was an artist and very funny and a dancer and very wild and into fashion. My stepfather traveled a lot, and I kind of took on a role of parenting my mother a lot of times, because she was pretty hard to handle. A bit of a pistol.” KindHardMotherArtistBitsSidesRolesFashionEmotionalHandleDancerTraveledPistolsHyperMellowStepfathersHard To Handle Author:Tig Notaro
“Fashion has always been in my life, thanks to my mother and my aunt growing up. I think as I became an adult, my style evolved, and my love of fashion evolved even more.” ThinkingMotherGrowing UpGrowingFashionStyleAdultsThanksAunt Author:Olivia Palermo
“Ultimately I think I learned a lot from my mother - the way she used fashion to make herself feel better; it was a tool she had and she used it very well. Fashion for her wasn't so far as an escape, but certainly a time where she would sit on her own and prepare what she wanted to wear the next day - it turned into bit of a ritual.” ThinkingWayFeelsWellsWantedUsedMotherNextBitsFashionToolsRitualFeel BetterNext Day Author:Matthew Williamson
“I've been designing my own pieces for a long time. My mother's a jewelry designer, so we knew at some point we were going to do a line and dive into the fashion world.” WorldLongMotherLinesMy OwnPiecesFashionDesignLong TimeDesignerJewelryFashion World Author:Christian Serratos
“I've learned a lot about fashion through modeling, but you know what they say, mother knows best. She used to tell me, "Your shoes, bags and belt better match before you walk out the door." I love her, but I don't necessarily agree with that advice anymore!” KnowsUsedMotherWalksDoorsAdviceFashionAgreeShoesI've LearnedBagsBeltsModeling Author:Ashley Graham
“My mother worked in fashion design and she used to show me all of these looks. She tried to get me to wear fitted jeans in high school. This is when big jeans were popping.” LooksShowsBigsSchoolUsedMotherFashionDesignHigh SchoolShow MeJeansPoppingFashion Design Author:Iman Shumpert
“I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.” PeopleThinkingFirstsPersonsMadeBookIdeasFactsMotherReadingFashionStyleDiedI RealizedLove Of ReadingFashion And StyleMother Died Author:Caroline Kennedy