Quotes About Identity

Be yourself! Love your mom, but if she's trying to get you to be someone you're not, she's in the wrong

I don't know my biological father. That could have had a huge impact on my life had it not been for the fact that my dad married my mom when I was one and raised me as his own.

I know not every mom is a secret KGB spy, but every mom has this whole other life. Every dad and every person has this whole other life.

I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.

Realizing you're not anything special to the kids is always a great sort of reminder that you're just a regular person. A regular embarrassing old mom.

I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.

I love seeing my mom and my daughter embrace their natural hair. I'm glad I've embraced it, too.

I do remember being teased by my cousins on my mom's side for not being black enough. And then I'd spend the summer with my dad and be sent to all white summer camps where I was 'that black girl.'

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.

I grew up in such a macho family. I had a former Green Beret for a dad, a mom who's really rough-and-tumble, and three very macho brothers.

My mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did she thought it was an act of rebellion against her. But it was just me being me.

My mom calls me 'baby face.' It's very embarrassing.

I make a bad mom, but I can pull off a crazy aunt.

I don't know anyone on my mom's or dad's side that was a musician.

Having children can be such a gift, but it can be a crushing experience for a certain kind of mom. And I am that certain kind of mom.

I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy.

Oh, try not to sound so much like Mom—you don't have the ovaries" (Monica Morrell - Last Breath)

I'm sorry you don't get it, Mom. Sometimes I don't get why I do the things I do. I just know I wake up every morning and wish I was dead.

Well, at least I'm not a stubborn, button-pushing, Prius-driving, chip-on-your-shoulder-holding, 'stay-at-home-mom'-is-the-eighth-dirty-word-thinking feminazi!

My mom used to get involved with the Black Panther activities in Los Angeles. For me it was more about how to view my consciousness on these issues with a biblical framework.

I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.

I had this alter ego where I would go to the theater with mom. I wasn't embarrassed by it; it was separate for me.

I was consumed with being a mom. I didn't think beyond that.

I grew up raised by my mom and my two sisters, so I never had a real male influence in my life. I never really understood heterosexual male relationships.