“At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom.” FirstsBelieveMayReadingFoundTalkingMomMy MomSeats Author:Reese Hoffa
“My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's War and Peace, and the Koran. I was reading comic books too.” YearsWellsTwoBookWarEnoughThreeReadingFiveTaughtBrotherMomMy MomNineComicChocolateCigaretteComic BookHomeworkNine YearsOlder Brother Author:Chris Abani
“I appreciate your giving my book -- and in no small way, me -- a chance. To thank you, I really wanted to acknowledge all of you in the book. Unfortunately, I didn't have enough room for each name. So I've put in a code name that stands for all of you reading this book. The name is 'Mom.' It will be our little secret. So when you see 'Mom' in the acknowledgments, you'll know I'm really talking about you. And don't let my mother try to tell you otherwise.” KnowsWayGivingTryingLittlesBookEnoughWantedMotherReadingNamesChanceRoomsSecretTalkingMomAppreciateCodeAcknowledgeAcknowledgmentAppreciate You Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped by the mom down the street, or in the magazine we're reading. The competition isn't just over who's a good mother--it's over who's the best. We compete with each other; we compete with ourselves. The best mothers always put their kids' needs before their own, period.” NeedsKidsMotherReadingPowerfulStreetsDangerMomPeriodsFemaleUltimateConstantCompetitionMotherhoodMagazinesOlympicsMotheringGood MotherBest Mother Author:Susan J. Douglas
“My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book and then my dad would sit down and explain it to her like she was an idiot.” BookRomanceReadingNovelMomDadDown AndMajorityHistoricalMy DadFeministMy MomIdiotRomance Novel Author:Kathleen Hanna
“My mom was in education, and I remember reading in one of her books about multiple intelligences - this whole theory about how there are all these different ways you can be intelligent, like eight or 10 of them or something. And one of them is emotional.” WayBookDifferentWholeRememberReadingEmotionalTheoryMomIntelligentMy MomEightDifferent WaysMultipleMultiple Intelligences Author:Lynn Shelton
“My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was an early and vigorous reader.” MadeMotherReadingTeacherHugeMomReaderVigorousEnglish TeacherFull Time Mom Author:Matt Wagner
“My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn't really aware that he was a writer; I didn't start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special; he's still one of my favorite writers.” WritingKindStillsReadingSawsSpecialMomDadTenMy DadMy FavoriteFifteenDivorced Author:Andre Dubus
“I remember that even my first impression of Italian cinema was pictures by paparazzi because my mom was reading all of these trash magazines with paparazzo pictures.” FirstsRememberReadingMomMy MomImpressionMagazinesCinemaItalianTrashPaparazziFirst Impression Author:Wim Wenders
“Every other day I read a book. It takes me two days to finish a book. I like reading because if I'm not doing anything, then I read. If my mom tells me to go take out the trash, I'll go take out the trash, and come back and start reading again.” IfsTwoBookReadingMomMy MomTake MeTrashTwo Days Author:Khleo
“Mom's a writer, so I grew up reading scripts and I have a real respect for them and I know how much thought goes into creating a role, so I'm always interested to find out what was the thought process of the writer and how best can I convey it rather than trying to change it to suit myself.” KnowsTryingRealReadingProcessRolesKnow HowGrewMomCreatingGrew UpScriptsSuitsTrying To ChangeThought Process Author:Naomie Harris
“If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible.” IfsWritingLooksGuyReadingNextWinningMomPrizePhysicistNobelUnderwearBasementsNobel PrizePlausiblePrize Winning Author:Barack Obama
“Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.” FirstsImportantBookReadingTeacherGrewMomGrew UpMy MomGrades Author:Kelly Clarkson
“My moms is strictly Christian but once I got knowledge of self and started reading she used to love when I would sit there and tell her some of the things that I learned. It gave her an open mind to where she started believing in the most high.” MindBelieveSelfChristianUsedReadingMomMy MomSelf KnowledgeOpen MindUsed To Love Author:Rakim
“[I had Bar mitzvah ]it was just me and my mom. And she's celebrating. And she's reading things to me in Hebrew. I don't know what's going on. And she's telling me that now I'm a man. And I'm like, does that mean I have no chores? And she's like, no, you still have chores, but you're a man. I didn't understand most of it.” KnowsMenMeanDoeStillsReadingMomMy MomBarsCelebrateHebrewChoresBar MitzvahMitzvah Author:Trevor Noah
“I was very, very young when I first started acting. My first movie role I was in, I was eight years old at the time. My mom got me involved in community theater stuff when I was like five or six years old. How I learned to read was by reading the captions on TV, and I grew up from a really young age watching tons of movies and television.” AgeReadingCommunityActingMomMy MomCaption Author:Cameron Monaghan
“One of the first lessons I learned as a mom was to forgive myself for not being perfect and to try to prioritize what was really important. I had to really accept very early on that after a while, reading a script and finding the form for the class trip, it was hard to realize which one had priority at times. So I just had to say, "You're doing the best you can, and when you make a mistake, apologize. Your kids know that you love them."” TryingImportantKidsReadingRealizingPerfectMistakeAcceptingMomForgivingPrioritiesApologizingPrioritize Author:Susan Sarandon