“I remember specifically my mother telling me growing up don't put my business in the street. I was like seven, and I am like, 'What does that mean.” MeanDoeRememberMotherGrowing UpGrowingStreetsSeven Author:Karrine Steffans
“You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.” StillsMotherDressesSevenPairsJeansJacobGrandkidsJewish Mother Author:Ayelet Waldman
“I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.” ChildrenTwoSchoolTogetherMotherFightingFatherLevelsClassMiddleBrotherGrewGrew UpMy FamilySevenGradesMiddle ClassMiddle Class FamilyTwo Sisters Author:Muhammad Yunus
“Modern women are just bombarded. There's nothing but media telling us we're all supposed to be great cooks, have great style, be great in bed, be the best mothers, speak seven languages, and be able to understand derivatives. And we don't really have women we're modeling after, so we're all looking for how to do this.” AbleMotherSpeakLanguageWomenModernMediaStyleBedSevenSupposed To BeCooksBeing The BestModelingDerivativesBest MotherBombardedModern WomanBombarded By Author:Jamie Lee Curtis
“My mother wanted me to learn how to read music. She'd given fiddles to my two older brothers, but they'd rebelled. I came along and my father said, "Oh, let Peter enjoy himself." What she did was leave musical instruments all around the house. Whistles, marimbas, squeeze boxes, a piano and organ. By age six or seven, I could bang out a simple tune on almost anything. I developed a good ear, so I didn't learn to read music until I taught myself at age eighteen, 'cause I was hearing so many good songs I couldn't possibly remember them all.” SaidTwoAgeWantedRememberMotherSongFatherHouseGivenCausesEnjoySimpleTaughtBrotherSixEarsInstrumentsSevenMusicalBoxesHearingPianoTunesPeterOrgansBangsEighteenFiddleOlder BrotherMusical Instruments Author:Pete Seeger
“I blame Rousseau, myself. "Man is born free", indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord and is not capable of looking after himself for at least seven years (seventy in some cases).” MenYearsMotherBornCasesCapableBlameSevenSeventiesSeven YearsCordsBorn Free Author:Katharine Whitehorn