“I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.”
Susie Bright (1958) American writer and feminist
“I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.”
Susie Bright (1958) American writer and feminist
“Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
Comments on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola
“I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.”
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Circulated in "A Coil of Rage" http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/coilofrage.asp, a 2011 mass e-mail attributing several fabricated quotations to Obama. <br class="br">Originally a statement about Obama by Steve Sailer from "Obama's Identity Crisis", The American Conservative (), recast into first-person as if said by Obama: <br class="br">And yet, at least through age 33 when he wrote Dreams from My Father, he found solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against his mother's race. <br class="br">Misattributed
Jimmy Buffett (1946) American singer–songwriter and businessman
A Pirate Looks at Forty
Song lyrics, A1A (1974)
“I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.”
Janet Fitch book White Oleander
Source: White Oleander
Boris Karloff (1887–1969) English actor
This is your Life Boris Karloff https://archive.org/details/TIYL_Boris_Karloff (1957)
“I would love this place to be my garden.”
Thierry Henry (1977) French association football player
On Arsenal's old stadium.
Attributed
“Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother.”
Lisa Gardner (1956) American author