Quotes About Understanding

One of the most powerful lessons I learned is when you make an argument in a film, you have to make sure both characters are right.

Investing is about intellectual honesty. You want to know what you know. You want to know, mostly, what you don't know.

I've always had mostly gay male friends.

What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better.

I mostly want to be friends with my children.

It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with: it is the mother of the thing you fear.

I can't say I ever loved my mother; I admired her.

You know, my mother had a rule which was 'people are just people.'

I experienced no conflict between my mother and father, which was entirely due to my mother's compassion, intelligence, and maturity.

I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was first married, I now value as serenity.

Who hasn't had an argument with their mother-in-law?

Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.

There's a feeling sometimes in motherhood that you're alone in what you're going through, and none of us are alone. We're all going through the same thing.

I am not always a hands-on mother, but the feelings of motherhood are the same.

Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.

Unfortunately, some of the best fathers are mothers.

Sometimes when I hear people talking about their families, or their relationships with their mothers and fathers, I hear it but it's not something I totally understand.

Now, I've got to tell you: 'In Our Mothers House,' I don't think is for a kindergartner.

Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.

All mothers go through the exact same things.

So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves.

How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?

Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.

I used to shake my head when I heard about mothers who were shocked - shocked! - when their kids came out. I didn't understand how they had missed seeing something so essential when looking at their children. But too many parents see only what they want to see, and that's true whether our kids are gay or straight.