Edmund White
Related My mother as a young girl went out with a young SS officer and she didn't really know what was g... MICHAEL HANEKE DAVID SEDARIS ANGELINA JOLIE I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for som... MARGO JEFFERSON I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for... GARY NUMAN LAUREN BACALL I was suffering a divorce, and I was very unhappy because my children were very young. It hit me whe... CAROLL SPINNEY JOAN RIVERS ROBERT WINSTON MIRIAM MARGOLYES My father always liked to have her around. He was so proud of how she looked. She was so pretty, sma... JUDY TESSIER DONATELLA VERSACE STEVE MARTIN STEPHEN CHBOSKY When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he ... FRANK GEHRY ICE T WILLIAM J. CLINTON KIM CATTRALL AL PACINO JOAN SUTHERLAND JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER It was about 1951. She had written me and said he was very special and he thought she was very speci... EDYTHE SCOTT BAGLEY LYNN JOHNSTON Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an except... L'WREN SCOTT I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was,... ERIC DICKERSON BRAD FELD ALAN FURST JILL LEPORE My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog wa... WENDY LIEBMAN TRACY MORGAN She's saying that she was raped by her father, he threatened her, he threatened her and her mother i... MIKE WRIGHT It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-e... ELLEN MUTH When I was six years old, my parents told me that we were moving back home to Armenia. I didn't ... HENRIKH MKHITARYAN NATALIE MERCHANT ANNE LAMOTT I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted ... KAROLYN GRIMES TIA MOWRY The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes lat... JULIAN FELLOWES JOHN COLTRANE MARLO THOMAS For me and for our family, looking at death is its glory, and an opportunity to thank God for this g... RONNENE HARRIS My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles ... KARYN PARSONS My mother was totally different from the mothers of my friends. She would never separate from me. In... CHANTAL AKERMAN When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st... JANE BIRKIN SASHA COHEN MAGGIE STIEFVATER WARREN BEATTY I guess she looked up to me sometimes, when she wasn't mad at me. She was just a really, really rema... ALEXANDER HENDERSON NICHOLAS SPARKS BETSY HODGES MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember h... JOHN LLOYD YOUNG FRANCESCA ANNIS CLIVE BARKER JOAN COLLINS JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encourage... DANNII MINOGUE Believe me what I did came from my heart. She asked me for help and I gave it to her. She wanted her... JOE SPARICO DAVID ROCKEFELLER MARLO THOMAS MARTIN AMIS ROBERT WILSON NICOLA ADAMS STEVEN WRIGHT I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES She was neither white nor black, Fyre nor Aquanite; she was a dame of the White King, and it was up ... CHRISTINE E. SCHULZE I had to come out to my mother three times over a twelve-year period, but I first came out to her wh... BILLY PORTER She was in a bit of a state and needed to know that I was OK. She managed to get a message to me say... PETE DOHERTY TYLER PERRY HARRY DEAN STANTON During the telecast ... I was asked a question in the top five, by Tony Danza, about my platform iss... KATIE HARMAN I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She ju... TATE TAYLOR What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, ... LUANNE RICE JADE JAGGER I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved... ROBERT POWELL POLLY TOYNBEE My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a column... SIOBHAN FALLON HOGAN RICHARD CARMONA JUDITH VIORST I was four when I started modeling. My mom was very much an off-the-stage mom who knew nothing about... CHARLOTTE ARNOLD It had never occurred to me to write a historical novel, but then I found Hadley in the pages of Hem... PAULA MCLAIN I tried to get my mother to move in with me, but she wanted to stay in her own home. When my mother ... CAROL REBELLO I tried to get my mother to move in with me, but she wanted to stay in her own home. When my mother ... CAROL S. REBELLO When I was eight, my mum found me humming to myself and scribbling on a scrap of paper. When she ask... NEIL JACKSON ISABEL ALLENDE My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was... KAROLYN GRIMES She was talking a lot of stuff about my mom. She pushed me, I hit her and it was done. CHRISTI NARDOZZI She may have been only sixteen years old, but there was a new life growing inside of her. She fought... VALENCIYA LYONS Don't get married until you're certain that you're marrying the right girl. How did I kn... BRIAN WILSON STEPHEN CHBOSKY RICHARD CARMONA BRITNEY SPEARS My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems. She was scared of letting me go. So, she home-scho... BRITT ROBERTSON My father was placid and easygoing. He owned a small shoe store where I helped out on Saturdays. I t... ALAN W. LIVINGSTON I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hi... JOHN CLEESE CORNELIA FUNKE You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of... SHEMAR MOORE PETER HIGGS ANNETTE BENING GAIL COLLINS
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My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six mon... 
My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own ... 
My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy ... 
[But she was closer to her mother.] I adored my mother. She was very formal and proper, but she was ... 
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep... 
Mummy was absolutely the rock in my life. It was not that I didn't love my father; he was such a... 
My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, a... 
But my mother was aglow. She had a continuing fascination with celebrities, and now she had one of h... 
My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight... 
My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I unders... 
I married my best friend. I was still in awe after more than four years of being around her at how s... 
My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went ... 
When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, a... 
I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer hers... 
I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I li... 
That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kind... 
My wife is a writer. She grew up in Alaska. She told me she was moving to Boulder and that I could c... 
My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and ... 
My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with... 
I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She mad... 
My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension i... 
I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get ... 
I've never been discriminated against, but I have witnessed discrimination. I was talking to a d... 
My mother had aspirations to become a concert singer. Her Methodist Minister father didn't appro... 
When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes... 
I asked him to say hi to my mom to prove he was there, and he was really great and nice and talked t... 
And then I opened my eyes and it was just Grace and me - nothing anywhere but Grace and me - she pre... 
My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is some... 
What was she like?"
My mother's first career was physical therapy, her second was writer, and her third career was p... 
I adored my mother, and I will always have extraordinary memories about her and remember her, and sh... 
My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother cam... 
I remember when I watched 'Hellraiser' with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the... 
My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. Wh... 
I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my ... 
My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he d... 
My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman - a Sicilian! - and if she didn't like somet... 
Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schoo... 
I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone wit... 
When The Queen invited the Olympians to the Palace, I was first in line to speak to her. She said sh... 
My mother is from another time - the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that's what she lov... 
My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was tryi... 
The first film I ever remember - I think my mother took me to it - was called 'She Married Her B... 
My mother didn't find motherhood easy. I've heard her saying that. She didn't breastfeed... 
My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of t... 
Lucy Mercedes Martinez, my mother, was probably my first mentor. She really tried to take care of me... 
I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reade... 
I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to ... 
And when she started becoming a “young lady,” and no one was allowed to look at her because she ... 
My mom used to tell me that the most valuable thing she owned was her library card. We were poor, bu... 
I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the e... 
There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she w... 
When my wife and I got married, she thought of me being an easygoing person, and I warned her I wasn... 
They did really adventurous traveling together. She talked about that. She talked about what a great... 
I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were tradit... 
If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been importe... 
If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned to... 
Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus C... 
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. 
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; fo... 
Most historians don't much like generalizations. Indeed, they make a trade of showing that this ... 
Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times. 
Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. 
I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useles... 
A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the pe... 
Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny ... 
Ambition can creep as well as soar. 
Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We... 
But Justice, though her dome doom she doe prolong,Yet at the last she will her owne cause right. 
Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek. 
His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught. 
He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw. 
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty? 
The best part of the high school in Hastings must have been the Music Department. Its orchestra and ... 
I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an ... 
Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; Madison wrote not only the United States Constituti... 
Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They ... 
Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make u... 
Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objec... 
Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of st... 