Quotes About Identity

I am not a pregnant working mother wronged.

Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!

Our mothers who have gone are buried in our bodies. It can be said that we were born with dead mothers in our body.

The doctor's name was Sylvia. I told her she'd have a problem with me because Sylvia was my mother's name.

I guess I define myself as a mother, a wife, kind of a nutty person. A good person.

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.

It's my real name. My mother's name is Rose Rock. It was the worst name as a kid to have. They called me Piece of the Rock, Plymouth Rock, Joe Rockid, and Flintstones. Now they call me Mister Rock.

I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels.

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.

My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.

I was very much in my own world, never the popular kid. But I had a great family, a great brother and mother.

I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.

Sean Óg ó Hailpín.... his father's from Fermanagh, his mother's from Fiji, neither a hurling stronghold.

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

I'm a fighter as a mother. I'm fighting to be a mother, but I cannot say no to my passion because it's me, as well.

For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.

On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.