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It's unfathomable how you live without your mother.
Dawn Steel
You
Mother
Live
Without
How
Unfathomable
Your
I grew up in New York, and I've always been surrounded by fashion. My grandmother used to write for 'Vogue' in the '50s, and my mother was a dancer and a model.
Dean Winters
Fashion
Mother
Dancer
Vogue
Write
New
Always
Been
Surrounded
Up
Model
York
New York
Grew
Grandmother
Used
I think I was raised by a really good mother.
Dean Winters
Good
Mother
Think
Good Mother
Really
Raised
When I was a young mother at home with a two year old and a five year old, living on the Eastside in one of those neighborhoods where all the houses look the same, where all the cars look the same and the lawns look the same, I was writing in secret.
Deb Caletti
Home
Writing
Mother
Old
Car
Year
Young
Living
Two-Year-Old
Secret
Those
Neighborhoods
Look
Houses
Year-Old
Five
Five-Year
Same
Where
Two
People used to call her Debbie Reynolds' daughter. Now they call me Princess Leia's mother!
Debbie Reynolds
Me
People
Mother
Daughter
Princess
Call
Leia
Used
Now
Her
I always feel, as a mother does, that I protect her. Who will do that when I'm gone?
Debbie Reynolds
Mother
Will
Gone
Feel
Protect
Does
Always
Who
Her
I don't know fancy big words, because I didn't have a rich mother who sent her to fancy schools.
Debbie Reynolds
Words
Mother
Big
Rich
Know
Schools
Because
Fancy
Sent
Who
Her
I've always been a good mother, but I've always been in show business, and I've been on stage, and I don't bake cookies and I don't stay home.
Debbie Reynolds
Good
Home
Business
Mother
Stage
Good Mother
Stay
Bake
Always
Been
Show
Show Business
Cookies
I wanted to have no ribs. I wore what was called a waist-nipper in those days. My mother made it. It's a piece of rubber band I wore around to hold my rib cage in. I don't know why I always loved that. I guess I was a glutton for punishment. I think I was born one of those people who loved swords and fought in armor.
Debbie Reynolds
People
Mother
Made
Band
Think
Guess
Those
Punishment
Born
Cage
Days
Know
Piece
Armor
Around
Always
Wanted
Hold
Loved
Ribs
Wore
Who
Fought
Why
Swords
Rubber
I was never cut out to be a mother - I was no good.
Debbie Rowe
Good
Mother
Out
Never
Cut
Because you give birth, because you impregnate someone, that does not automatically give you that title of mother or father. You earn the title.
Debbie Rowe
You
Mother
Father
Earn
Birth
Someone
Give
Because
Does
Automatically
Title
I work with kids, and I see certain things, so I realize now why my mother was so horrified and overprotective of everything that I watched.
Debby Ryan
Work
Mother
Everything
Kids
See
Horrified
Realize
Certain
Certain Things
Now
Why
Things
Watched
Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.
Debi Mazar
You
Management
Mother
Ways
Like
Lot
Friend
Being
Publicist
I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy.
Deborah Moggach
Mother
Father
Books
Bad
Something
Lazy
Written
Suppose
Like
Wrote
Which
Novels
Comparison
When my mother passed away I was 20.
Deborah Norville
Mother
Passed
Away
My mother cared a lot about clothes. It was a point of friction because when I was a teenager, and I only wanted to wear my father's shirts, and I never wanted to wear makeup, she would say: 'Put on lipstick.' That was her thing.
Deborah Tannen
Mother
Father
Clothes
Teenager
Say
Would
Wear
About
Only
Point
Never
Put
She
Because
Makeup
Friction
Lot
Shirts
Lipstick
Wanted
Her
Thing
Cared
American popular culture, like individuals in daily life, tends to either romanticize or demonize mothers. We ricochet between 'Everything I ever accomplished I owe to my mother' and 'Every problem I have in my life is my mother's fault.'
Deborah Tannen
Life
Daily
Culture
Problem
Fault
Mother
My Life
Every
Everything
Tends
Individuals
Between
Like
Mothers
Demonize
Accomplished
Owe
American
Either
Popular
Popular Culture
Ever
Daily Life
I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. For part of my life, I was living in Detroit, and I remember a friend of mine commenting she could always tell when I had been speaking to my mother because my New York accent had come back.
Deborah Tannen
Life
Remember
Mother
My Life
Living
Back
Mine
Tell
Brooklyn
Could
Detroit
Had
Part
New
Come
She
Accent
Because
Always
Been
Friend
Up
Commenting
York
New York
Grew
Speaking
My most amazing discovery was becoming a mother. It changed everything. I can't imagine my life without these little beings.
Deborra-Lee Furness
Life
Mother
Amazing
My Life
Changed
Everything
Most
Most Amazing
Without
Becoming
Discovery
Little
Beings
Imagine
I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.
Debra Messing
Love
Mother
Singing
Dancing
Carol
Carol Burnett
Television
Always
Glued
Burnett
Show
Lucy
Watching
Both grandfathers fought in different wars. My mother's father fought in World War II, and then my father's father fought in Korea. And they're both these country boys, one from rural Tennessee and one from rural Louisiana - and they never went back home.
Dee Rees
War
Home
World
Mother
Father
Country
Back
Rural
Both
Tennessee
Never
Boy
Korea
Louisiana
Different
Grandfathers
Then
Wars
Fought
World War
World War II
I believe I was actually the first single mother in a major film.
Dee Wallace
Mother
First
Single
Believe
Major
Single Mother
Film
Actually
I had worked my whole life. Until I became a mother, that's the only way I measured my value.
Demi Moore
Life
Mother
Value
Way
Only
Had
Until
Became
Worked
Measured
Whole
My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.
Denis Leary
Mother
Tortured
Brother
Up
Growing
Growing Up
I was taken to a boarding school when I was four years old and taken away from my mother and my father, my grandparents, who I stayed with most of the time, and just abruptly taken away and then put into the boarding school, 300 miles away from our home.
Dennis Banks
Time
Home
School
Mother
Old
Father
Our
Stayed
Abruptly
Taken
Put
Most
Years
Just
Boarding
Boarding School
Then
Grandparents
Miles
Who
Away
Four
I had a mother who prayed for me, and prayer changes everything.
Dennis Edwards
Me
Prayer
Mother
Changes
Everything
Had
Prayed
Who
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