“My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.” DifferentMotherMomTypePersonalityDadMy DadMy MomWarmTypicalJewish Mother Author:Peter R. Orszag
“I remember feeling ashamed, for some reason. I was ashamed of my parents. I couldn't face some of my friends at school anymore, because I desperately wanted to have the classic, you know, typical family. Mother, father. I wanted that security, so I resented my parents for quite a few years because of that.” KnowsYearsReasonFeelingsWantedSchoolRememberFacesMotherFatherParentSecurityMy FriendsClassicAshamedTypical Author:Kurt Cobain
“I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.” EnoughMotherDaughterPerfectionStriveGood EnoughTypicalMother DaughterMother Daughter RelationshipStriving For PerfectionNever Good Enough Author:Dorothy Hamill
“My grandmother was a typical farm-family mother. She would regularly prepare dinner for thirty people, and that meant something was always cooking in the kitchen. All of my grandmother's recipes went back to her grandmother.” PeopleMotherCookingDinnerThirtyKitchenGrandmotherFarmsTypicalMy GrandmotherRecipes Book:If I Knew it Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First Source: If I Knew it Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First
“I haven’t come from the typical path or background of someone who would make it to this level as a ballerina. When it came to my childhood-growing up in a single-parent home, often struggling financially-my mother definitely instilled in me and my siblings this strength, this will, to just continue to survive and succeed.” HomeMotherParentLevelsStruggleGrowing UpPathGrowingChildhoodHavensSucceedBackgroundsTypicalSiblingBallerinaSingle ParentMy SiblingsParents Home Author:Misty Copeland