“Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother.”
Lisa Gardner (1956) American author
Source: Bloodlines
“Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother.”
Lisa Gardner (1956) American author
Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
February 5, 2008 Super Tuesday Address http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/speech/view/?id=5761 <br class="br">Presidential campaign (January 20, 2007 – 2008)
Lucy Stone (1818–1893) American abolitionist and suffragist
Letter to her mother (14 March 1847)
Context: I know, Mother, you feel badly and that you would prefer to have me take some other course, if I could in conscience. Yet, Mother, I know you too well to suppose that you would wish me to turn away from what I think is my duty. I surely would not be a public speaker if I sought a life of ease, for it will be a most laborious one; nor would I do it for the sake of honor, for I know that I shall be disesteemed, even hated, by some who are now my friends, or who profess to be. Neither would I do it if I sought wealth, because I could secure it with far more ease and worldly honor by being a teacher. If I would be true to myself, true to my Heavenly Father, I must pursue that course of conduct which, to me, appears best calculated to promote the highest good of the world.
Malaquías Montoya (1938) American artist
On how his viewpoint of his parents changed after the advent of César Chávez (as quoted in “’What better function for art at this time than as a voice for the voiceless’: The Work of Chicano Artist Malaquías Montoya” https://nacla.org/news/2019/02/17/%E2%80%9Cwhat-better-function-art-time-voice-voiceless%E2%80%9D-work-chicano-artist-malaqu%C3%ADas; 2019 Feb 15)
“Rest in my arms
Sleep in my bed
There's a design
To what I did and said”
Sufjan Stevens (1975) American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
"Vito's Ordination Song"
Lyrics, Michigan (2003)
Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) American illustrator and writer of children's books
NOW interview (2004)