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“I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me.”

Source: Promise at Dawn

“We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?”

Mother Father Appreciate Distance Parenting Expected Criticize Hook Appreciated Our Father Long Distance Closeness

Book:At Large

Source: At Large

“Commerce however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one of the daughters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled.”

May Mother Opinion Please Daughter Fortune Appearance Expected Contrary Commerce Deceitful Abode Residence Continuance

Book:The works of Samuel Johnson, with Murphy's essay, ed. by R. Lynam

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, with Murphy's essay, ed. by R. Lynam

“First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers.”

Firsts Has Beens Mother Perfect Wife Expected First Lady

Book:First Lady from Plains

Source: First Lady from Plains

“I had to run away from home in order to be a musician. Because I came from a family of... my father was a health inspector; my mother was a social worker. And I was pretty smart in school. So they expected me to be some kind of academic - schoolteacher, or doctor, lawyer - and they were very disappointed when I told them I wanted to be a musician.”

Kind Home Running Wanted School Mother Order Father Social Musician Smart Doctors Workers Expected Lawyer Disappointed Running Away Academic Social Worker Away From Home Inspectors

Author:Hugh Masekela

“What had I expected of the first child? Everything. Rocket scientist. Neurosurgeon. Designated hitter. We talked wisely at cocktail parties about the sad mistake our mothers had made in pinning all their hopes and dreams on us. We were full of it.”

Firsts Children Made Dream Mother Party Mistake Scientist Expected Rockets Cocktails Hopes And Dreams Cocktail Parties Neurosurgeons Designated Hitter

Book:Living Out Loud

Source: Living Out Loud