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“My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.”

Different Mother Mom Type Personality Dad My Dad My Mom Warm Typical Jewish Mother

Author:Peter R. Orszag

“Becoming a mother doesn't always change every aspect of your personality.”

Mother Personality Becoming Aspect Becoming A Mother

Author:Anna Torv

“I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mum.”

Thinking America Mother Careers Personality

Author:Victoria Beckham

“More than any other personality trait, my mother seemed to be ruled by anger and sadness. She seemed to hate being a mother. Watching her unhappiness as I grew up made me conclude that the answer was to try and be as unemotional as I could, which many therapists have taught me is a bad idea. It also made me want to avoid marriage and having children.”

“Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother's; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.”

Knows Ends Seems Mother Personality Daughter Radical Desperate Surgery Blur

Book:Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution

Source: Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution

“Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child.... Leave his sensibilities, his emotions, his spirit, and his mind severely alone. There is the devil in mothers, that they must provoke personalresponse from their infants.”

Mind Children Age Spirit Mother Certain Emotion Education Childhood Personality Devil Sensibility Provoking Infant Deformity Moustache

Book:Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays

Source: Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays

“I couldn't have been a novelist without being a mother. It gives you a unique witness point of the growth of a personality. It was a kind of biological component for me that had to come first. My children gave this other window on the world.”

World Giving Firsts Kind Children Has Beens Mother Growth Personality Unique Window Witness My Children Novelists Components Being A Mother

Author:Carol Shields

“Behind my work was ambition, behind my love was personality, behind my purity was fear, behind my guidance the thirst for power. Now they are vanishing and I drift. I come, Mother, I come, in Thy warm bosom, floating wheresoever Thou takest me, in the voiceless, in the strange, in the wonderland, I come - a spectator, no more an actor.”

Mother Actors Behinds Strange Personality Ambition Warm Guidance Purity Thirst Floating Spectators Bosoms Wonderland Vanishing Voiceless Thirst For Power

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“It's not right to say that my father influenced me more than others, and I wouldn't be able to say whether my personality was formed more by my father or my mother or the Mahatma [Gandhi] or the friends who were with us.”

Able Mother Father Personality

Author:Indira Gandhi

“My mother isn't particularly vain. Growing up with a parent who put emphasis on personality over looks was important.”

Important Mother Parent Growing Up Personality Vain

Author:Alexa Chung

“Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.”

World Different Might Mother Courses Strong Views Relationship Personality Daughter Point Of View My Daughter Mother Daughter Mother And Daughter Different Points Of View Strong Personality Beautiful Daughter Beautiful Mother And Daughter

Author:Katherine Howe