Quotes About Identity

My father has passed away. He was African-American. My mother is white. So I was adopted by a couple that was of a similar dynamic as my biological parents.

I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans - but as mothers, I think were pretty much alike!

I feel sexier than ever after becoming a mother.

Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother.

Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.

Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother.

I've made love to my mother, killed my father, and my brother. What am I to do?

I look at Barack [Obama], he's slim like my father, and Michelle's [Obama] full figured like my mother. And I just love it.

I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

Talking about your home town is like talking about your own mother.

Because everyone is someone's child, every woman seems like someone's mother.

I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.

I wasn't Barbie-obsessed. I think my mother might have been my Barbie.

My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman. I'm a black mother, wife, churchgoer, etc. I am the legacy of slavery.

When I said, "I am my mother, but I'm not," I was saying my path would be my own.

My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.

I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.

I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother

Mothers don't want to pinch me or put me in their purse.

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name and apparently that's the key to the whole thing right there. I go in every few weeks and guess.

I'm a mother, I'm a journalist, I'm an American; I'm all of those things, and it really complicates your job when you have all these things come into play.

A triptych in which the presiding deities are Mother, England and Me.

My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.