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“When I found out I was pregnant, my mother said, 'Dont separate your life, the life that youre going to make with this child, from the things that you are and what you want to do.'”

Want Children Said Mother Found What You Want Pregnant Were Pregnant

Author:Neneh Cherry

“I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe were all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.”

Want Believe Shows Mother Girl Winning I Believe Underdog Slums

Author:Vikas Swarup

“I think we all want to be Gisele Bündchen. Whether it inspires. Not only for her beauty. Successful she is, is a businesswoman, is an activist, a good mother is a strong woman and a good example to all the powerful women . Everybody wants to know what she does or says, rather than what she wears.”

Thinking Knows Want Doe Mother Strong Powerful Successful Example Inspire Activist Strong Women Powerful Women Good Examples Her Beauty Good Mother

Author:Erin Heatherton

“I woke up one day and thought: I want to write a book about the history of my body. I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.”

Want Writing Book Body Mother Talking One Day Justify

Author:Paul Auster

“Don't take a job because your mother wants you to. Don't be a victim. You own your decision.”

Want Jobs Mother Decision Victim

Author:Jack Welch

“My mother taught me to focus on being myself and not to worry what other people think about you. I know that as long as I'm a good person I'll stay on the right path. From my dad I learned that when someone tells you “No” it's only the beginning of a conversation. They both have always let me know that I can do anything I want to do as long as I don't give up. They are the most important role models in my life because they are exactly who I want to be when I grow up. They are supportive and understanding and I try every day to remember what they've taught me.”

“My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, 'If people would only live by the Golden Rule, there wouldn't be the problems that there are.' In other words, 'treat people the way you want to be treated.' If somebody mistreats you, two wrongs won't make a right.”

People Ifs Way Want Two Problem Mother Father Students Treats Treated Golden Live By Golden Rule Youngsters Mother And Father Mistreat

Author:Monte Irvin

“My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons... It wasn't forced on me. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've never stopped playing music. I never went through a period where I didn't want to do it.”

Want Years Wanted Mother Four Periods Lessons My Family Musical Piano Four Years Playing Music Piano Lesson

Author:John Legend

“My mother taught me the principles of hard work, setting my own goals and visualizing my future. From my early days with Destiny's Child, I understood I had to be focused and dedicated if I wanted true success. We were taught we needed a plan and the discipline to execute that plan to the fullest. I strongly believe if you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that's easier said than done but keep trying.”

“The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman, a mother, an artist, and a feminist - whatever you want to be - and still be a sexual being. It's not mutually exclusive.”

Want Made Stills Mother Artist Lessons Victim Feminist Exclusive Fragility

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“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.”

Want Children Wanted Mother Crazy Fashion Brother Married Independent My Brother Want Me Being Married Married With Children Crazy Life Fashion Business

Author:Donatella Versace

“As a mother, the things that I wanted for my own four children, I want for all the children of France.”

Want Children Wanted Mother My Own Four Our Children France

Author:Segolene Royal

“Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.”

Want Mother Inspiring Mum Mothers Day Victoria

Author:Geri Halliwell

“I do chat to my mother in Norwegian, particularly when we want a secret conversation. It is useful that way.”

Way Want Mother Secret Conversation Norwegians

Author:Alexander Hanson

“"But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a mother's love, or the comfort of a home; that ill-usage and blows, or the want of bread, may have driven him to herd with men who have forced him to guilt. Aunt, dear aunt, for mercy's sake, think of this, before you let them drag this sick child to a prison, which in any case must be the grave of all his chances of amendment."”

Source: The Charles Dickens Collection Volume One: Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and Bleak House

“My mother wanted me to go to church to meet women. That's wrong, ain't it? 'Praise the Lord! Hey, how ya doing? Nice dress. Look, I'm going to go over there and get some of this wine and crackers, want some?'”

Want Looks Wanted Mother Church Lord Nice Praise Dresses Wine Hey Crackers Praise The Lord

Author:Warren Hutcherson

“I came from nothing. My mother was a single mother in the streets. She did everything she could do. Me and my brother experienced a lot on our own and with me knowing that feeling, I didn't want others to have that feeling, so that's why I fight for the streets. I'm making my own lane and staying true to myself, 'cause at the end of the day, you can't ban the truth.”

Want Ends Feelings Mother Fighting Causes My Own Knowing Streets Brother My Brother The End Of The Day Staying Lanes Bans Stay True Single Mother True To Myself

Author:Trae tha Truth

“You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.”

Knows Want Mother Desire Father Comfort Sickness

Book:Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings

“I'm real ambivalent about [working mothers]. Those of use who have been in the women's movement for a long time know that we've talked a good game of "go out and fulfill your dreams" and "be everything you were meant to be." But by the same token, we want daughters-in-law who are going to stay home and raise our grandchildren.”

“The difference between guilt and shame is very clear--in theory. We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are. A person feels guilt because he did something wrong. A person feels shame because he is something wrong. We may feel guilty because we lied to our mother. We may feel shame because we are not the person our mother wanted us to be.”

People Want Feels May Persons Different Feelings Wanted Lying Mother Differences Clear Theory Shame Guilt Guilty Ashamed Wrong Lied

Author:Lewis B. Smedes

“I don't want to know about the constitution of the rapist--I want to kill him! I don't care if he is white or black, if he is middle-class or poor, if his mother hung him from the clothesline by his balls: I only want to kill him! Any woman who has been raped will agree.”

Ifs Knows Want Has Beens Care Mother Black White Poor Class Middle Balls Constitution Agree Don't Care I Don't Care Middle Class Hung Clotheslines

Author:Diamanda Galas

“Our ability to fall in love requires enough comfort with our masculinity to join it with someone's femininity and feel enhanced. .. . If our mother made us feel secure and proud in our masculinity, then we want to find that again in our wife. If we are really comfortable with our mother, we can even marry a woman who is a friend rather than an adversary, and form a true partnership.”

Ifs Want Feels Made Enough Form Mother Fall Ability Wife Proud Comfort Comfortable Falling In Love Secure Partnership Masculinity Femininity Adversaries

Author:Frank Pittman

“We long for our father. We wear his clothes, and actually try to fill his shoes. . . . We hang on to him, begging him to teach ushow to do whatever is masculine, to throw balls or be in the woods or go see where he works. . . . We want our fathers to protect us from coming too completely under the control of our mothers. . . . We want to be seen with Dad, hanging out with men and doing men things.”

Men Want Trying Long Mother Father Teach Dad Protect Clothes Balls Shoes Woods Hanging Out Masculine Our Father Begging Doing Me

Author:Frank Pittman

“Anyone who has ever been a mother or father and is at all honest knows from experience how difficult it can be for parents to accept certain aspects of their children. It is especially painful to have to admit this if we really love our child and want to respect his or her individuality yet are unable to do so.”

Ifs Knows Want Children Mother Certain Father Parent Difficult Accepting Honest Aspect Our Children Individuality Painful Love Our Children

Book:For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

“[My mother told me:] "You must decide whether you want to get married someday, or have a career."... I set my sights on the career. I thought, what does any man really have to offer me?”

Men Want Doe Mother Careers Offers Married Sight Someday

Author:Annie Elizabeth Delany

“Not rarely, and this is especially true of wives and mothers, the motive behind assuming a disproportionate share of work and responsibility is completely unselfish. We want to protect, to spare those of whom we are fond. We forget that, regardless of the motive, the results of such action are almost always destructive and unproductive.”

Want Action Mother Forget Results Behinds Responsibility Wife Share Protect Assuming Motherhood Motive Destructive Spares Unselfish Unproductive Wives And Mothers

Author:Hortense Odlum

“They want to play at being mothers. So let them. Expressing tenderness in their own way will not prevent girls from enjoying a successful career in the future; indeed, the ability to nurture is as valuable a skill in the workplace as the ability to lead.”

Way Want Play Mother Girl Enjoy Ability Careers Successful Skills Valuable Tenderness Nurture Workplace Being A Mother Successful Career

Author:Anne Roiphe

“... nothing seems completely to differentiate the poor but poverty. We find no adjectives to fit them, as a whole, only those of which Want is the mother. "Miserable" covers many; "shabby" most, and I am sadly aware that, in a large majority of minds, "disagreeable" includes them all.”

Want Mind Whole Seems Mother Poor Poverty Fit Majority Miserable Disagreeable Adjectives Differentiate Shabby Classism

Book:Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations

Source: Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations

“What ignited the rocket that sent you up into the vast regions of comedy, and why? I would say, for me, that philosophical treatise about having black beginnings and wanting love to compensate for that, wanting audiences and wanting attention - I say, "Au contraire." Completely opposite. I want the continuation of my mother's incredible love and attention to me.”

Want Mother Black Attention Audience Comedy Opposites Philosophical Incredibles Regions Rockets Continuation

Author:Mel Brooks

“I want my mother to think - she's a tough fashion critic.”

Thinking Want Mother Fashion Tough Critics

Author:Eva Mendes

“I don't think you play for other people's expectations, you know. You don't go and become a lawyer because your mother or father want you to, you don't become a coach because somebody wants you to.”

People Thinking Knows Want Play Mother Father Expectations Lawyer Coaches

Author:Mike Krzyzewski

“If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.”

Ifs Want Mother Ethics Working It Want Something

Author:Joanne Harris

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