“I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.”

“I had my own bed. I slept in it alone, except for those times when we needed—not sex—but sex was how we got there.”

Amy Hempel (1951) Short story writer

“All my life my mother has told me I'm hard to shop for. She can't find the bacon aisle!”

Morgan Murphy (food critic) (1972) Southern writer

“This is my mother’s wedding,”«" she said. "We’re not going to have sex. At all."
"But ‘at all’ is my favorite way to have sex.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

“My lifestyle changed when this wonderful person came into my life. I couldn't sleep for years. All of a sudden, I don't know why or how, but I slept.”

Ryan Adams (1974) American alt-country/rock singer-songwriter

“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.”

George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States

“When my mother delivered me, she didn't have milk, and I was breastfed by an Arab woman. Maybe that had an effect on my leftist views.”

Amir Peretz (1952) Israeli politician

“I often went to bed without supper 'cause I hated my mother's cooking. So, to go to bed without supper was not a torture to me. If she was gonna hurt me, she'd make me eat.”

Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) American illustrator and writer of children's books

“My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.”

Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004) American actor and comedian

“My mother was pregnant with me while she was in prison. She was her own attorney, never been to law school. She was facing 300 and something odd years. One black woman, pregnant, beat the case. That just goes to show you the strength of a black woman and the strength of the oppressed.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor