“I wanted to meet my biological mother mostly to see if she was OK and to thank her, because I'm glad I didn't end up as an abortion. She was twenty-three and she went through a lot to have me.”
As quoted in Steve Jobs (2011) by Walter Isaacson, p. 254
2010s
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Nastassja Kinski (1961) German actress
and she makes me see and feel things again. Nobody, not my father, not anybody, has done that for me, except movies.
As quoted in Denise Worrell (1989), Icons: Intimate Portraits.
GG Allin (1956–1993) American singer-songwriter
GG Allin on The Jerry Springer Show, May 5. 1993.
On The Jerry Springer Show
“A mother knows what her child's gone through, even if she didn't see it herself.”
Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1925–2006) Indonesian writer
Source: Gadis Pantai
Kate DiCamillo book Flora & Ulysses
Source: Flora & Ulysses (2013), Chapter Four: A Surprisingly Helpful Cynic, p. 12
Bob Saget (1956) American stand-up comedian, actor and television host
Bob Saget: That Ain't Right (2007)
J.M. Coetzee book Life & Times of Michael K
Life & Times of Michael K (1983)
Context: He closed his eyes and tried to recover in his imagination the mudbrick walls and reed roof of her stories, the garden of prickly pear, the chickens scampering for the feed scattered by the little barefoot girl. And behind that child, in the doorway, her face obscured by shadow, he searched for a second woman, the woman from whom his mother had come into the world. When my mother was dying in the hospital, he thought, when she knew her end was coming, it was not me she looked to but someone who stood behind me: her mother or the ghost of her mother. To me she was a woman but to herself she was still a child calling to her mother to hold her hand and help her. And her own mother, in the secret life we do not see, was a child too. I come from a line of children without end.