Quotes About Identity

How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.

You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.

If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

That's what my mother doesn't understand about my lipstick and dark clothes. I don't wear tattoos to freak her out; I wear them because I have to. It's me.

As to my political faith- I have never voted. My father was a Democrat, my mother a Republican, and I am an Episcopalian.

I am still confused because I still don't know who my father is. And so who is my mother? The feeling is still there.

I tell my mother I went to God in spite of my religious education. I feel that my religious education was inadequate, but that doesn't mean that Judaism was inadequate.

People always ask me: 'When is the new Pele going to be born?' Never. My father and mother have closed the factory.

Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother.

All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

I don't like the word 'businesswoman.' Perhaps 'committed mother' would be the best description.

Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.

Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.

Wife-Mother-Actress-Author The world will remember.

You women are daughters of God. You are precious. You are made in the image of our Heavenly Mother.

I didn't know that my sister was really my mother until I was thirty-seven years old. But life has taught me that there have been a lot of things that I didn't know.

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.

I thought my mom's whole purpose was to be my mom. That's how she made me feel.

The theater was my mother and my father.

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.

Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are.

My biological mother made my clothes or bought my clothes from Salvation Army or Goodwill.

[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.