Quotes About Struggle

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.

When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone.

No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.

My dad used to flush my mother's head down the toilet. I was so screwed up.

The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.

My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.

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

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

On December 17, 1984, I had surgery to remove two inches of my left lung due to pneumonia. After two hours of surgery the doctors told my mother I had AIDS.

We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting.

The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

I found a very diabolical way of making myself suffer - not in the same way [my mother ] was suffering but to prevent me from enjoying my own life.

My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate.

On one thing professionals and amateurs agree: mothers can't win.

My mother's a staunch feminist, so I grew up with very strong feminist messages. As a result, I battled her in my teenage years because my image of being a man was a deformed one.

My mother is still battling alcoholism.