Katha Pollitt
Related My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when... STANLEY HAUERWAS After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how ... CONRAD VEIDT 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 MIKE NICHOLS MARIO TESTINO I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for... GARY NUMAN When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st... JANE BIRKIN My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from ... PAUL GIAMATTI My mother had a bout with cancer. I can't fight the fight for her, but this event is a way I can com... CATHERINE MELVIN I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very dif... VANESSA KERRY I just took her heart away from her right away. I was doing the feints, trying to get her out of her... JAIME CLAMPITT ANNE LAMOTT I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was,... ERIC DICKERSON This week was the first anniversary of the death of my father and I had long promised my mother we w... JUERGEN KLINSMANN 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 I sat her one time, just to make an example out of her. It was on a Saturday and she came to practic... GARY CRANE QUINCY JONES MARLO THOMAS 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 MICHAEL JACKSON Her grandmother was a drug dealer. Her mother was a drug addict, and she never knew her father. Nico... GARY W. ADAIR RUTH REICHL I realized today that a daughter is born twice. For nine months, a mother carries and nourishes her ... KIM DONG HWA JAMES LAFFERTY I cannot forget that picture of the little girl who, after the grenade fell in the on the market pla... CARL BILDT I cannot forget that picture of the little girl who, after the grenade fell in the on the market pla... CARL BILDT If I had it my way, Harper and I wouldn't be standing in this room right now, we wouldn't be pressed... MOLLY MCADAMS She came and stayed with me until the ambulance got there, ... I knew her because my sister and I ha... ANGELA MOORE KAMI GARCIA My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working. DEAN STOCKWELL I never really knew her before, but we had a ball together. I was very pleased with my set. KAREN MORGAN I know it (move) was tough on her. It was tough on me, losing her as an athlete, a student, and my d... SHELLY ARREDONDO I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill. KAREN BENDER Jessie's family I had known because they had been in the arts world with her older sister for years.... PATTY GAIR CAROLINE KENNEDY DON RICKLES I looked into her eyes, and saw my own staring back, the same peculiar shade, pale grey, flecked wit... CELIA REES I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own co... LAURA INNES AL PACINO I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr... SAM RAIMI SHRADDHA KAPOOR ROBIN MCLEAVY JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT I tried to assist from outside but couldn't get her out. She was wrapped up in the bed frame, so I d... JASON LYNCH TRACEE ELLIS ROSS DIANE VON FURSTENBERG When my sister came here, I knew her. I finally had a sister, and now she's gone. I miss that. LUHANNA CHESLEY She actually had about a 50-meter lead early, so I was getting a little bit nervous. But I had a fee... AMY HASTINGS I'm eternally grateful to {our birth mother}, but wish I had never needed her. It's a loaded friends... JANA WOLFF GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember h... JOHN LLOYD YOUNG HARRY STYLES Other dragons are bastards. I moved out of my mother's cave after my mother tried to rip my guts out... ZEN CHO JOAN SUTHERLAND I had to cope with her right from when I was little, I looked after her and you. JACQUELINE WILSON MAX LUCADO SOLANGE KNOWLES I guess I better let her step out a little more. That's bad coaching, not putting her in the right p... CARMEN DOLFO LISA KIRK There was a modeling agency in my little town where I got my start, but the opportunity came to work... JULIA VOTH I smiled and looked at her- there she was with such a genuine grin and twinkle in her eyes. I kissed... JORI NUNES I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories ... DARYL HALL I never thought I’d ever leave Zerc. But after knowing Cricket, it occurred to me that I had no re... ASH GRAY WILL ROGERS EDMUND WHITE ELIZABETH BERG ALEXANDRA STODDARD EL DEBARGE MURIEL SPARK JOHN GREEN My mother had her own horse. Her father drove a horse and carriage and his horses were the best. LARRY MORRISSEY I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because ... HARRIET WALTER I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised ... YUL VAZQUEZ MIKE TYSON EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI APRILYNNE PIKE My mother looked back at me while my father drove. Her long auburn hair was shimmering in the flicke... ZARA STEEN NEIL GAIMAN My brain came alight with tenderness for her. I felt so sorry for everything. I yearned to embrace h... HANNAH LILLITH ASSADI I came out a little nervous, a little tight. Once I got up a few breaks, I just found my rhythm and ... ALEX HUME POLLY TOYNBEE Losing Sarah and my boy was the hardest thing I've ever lived through. But even then, you see, I kne... JENNIFER ASHLEY ROBERT DE NIRO I had a little 6-year-old girl come up and dump her piggy bank in my boot so I was, I had tears in m... STEVE SURACE But I'll tell you this, it started with my mother. I have to give her. God bless her and rest he... DAVE WINFIELD But my mom knew this was my job and she gave me her blessing and told me to stay out here and do the... MARCUS TUBBS SARAH ADDISON ALLEN MARY J. BLIGE Meeting Helen Mirren was a fabulous experience. I had played it out in my mind, how I should greet h... OM PURI FRANK OCEAN I watched her mother sobbing over her dying daughter. We walked out into the hallway and Mary said t... DAVID GIBBS I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an... HUGH LEONARD A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death... MARGUERITE YOUNG I kind of had a feeling she'd do that, I knew she always starts fast, and she just sprinted right at... EMILY PAPA TRACY MORGAN JANE SMILEY I wanted to drop the emotional hammer on Steph and tell her my thought: that I would very much like ... SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL ROBERTSON DAVIES JOAN RIVERS
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My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and thr... 
I've always had an affinity with women. It probably started with my mother when I was young, but... 
I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get ... 
I've never looked back in my life. I don't want to see that stuff. I had blanked out a lot of stuff ... 
When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes... 
Well Brooke, I've always liked her, and when I was little I used to stay with Diana Ross, me and... 
My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it... 
What I remember most about junior homecoming was my date getting sick afterwards. That kinda sucked.... 
I was lost before I found her in my dreams, and she found me that day in the rain. I knew it seemed ... 
I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I di... 
When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was ge... 
When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, a... 
My father has acted in over 700 films. My mother acted in one film, 'Kismat with Mithun Chakrabo... 
My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I&#... 
Air punched out of my lungs. I held her tight, and I knew right then I would burn down the whole uni... 
My mom had beautiful clothes. My mom is elegant; my mom is glamorous. But my mom is also really real... 
I never modeled myself after anyone. The person who had most influence on me was my mother, but it w... 
She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... 
Ages ago, my girlfriend had this little park near her house, with a bridge running over a stream... ... 
I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer hers... 
When my daughter was a toddler, I used to take her to a park not far from our apartment. One day as ... 
I have a mother who never took no for an answer when it came to her creative pursuits. She started a... 
She's not an overpowering pitcher but she pitches in spots and hits her spots well. I think she was ... 
My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have come... 
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for ... 
Well, anyway, her death changed our lives for the better, because it brought a kind of awareness, a ... 
When I was little, I got to pick my hair ribbon from my mother's collection that hung over her d... 
I was in no way ready when my daughter was born. But I want to be a good father to her. 
I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control. 
She had this dark cancer water dripping out of her chest. Eyes closed. Intubated. But her hand was s... 
I never saw my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something: She only knew me as being a... 
My mom was an aesthetician and she went to beauty school back in the '60s. I just remember watch... 
Whether or not there was room in her life for Tamani, Laurel knew that there was precious little roo... 
How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline.
My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of t... 
My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop... 
Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was calle... 
I blame my mother for nothing, but forgive her for everything. 
We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - g... 
I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She mad... 
When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend... 
I thought I was in love with Leola, by which I meant that if I could have found her in a quiet corne... 
[But she was closer to her mother.] I adored my mother. She was very formal and proper, but she was ... 
There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time fr... 
Everyone will be happier if fewer women are tied to abusive men, drop out of school, and live impove... 
The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - m... 
What is here is also there; what is there, is also here. Who sees multiplicity but not the one indiv... 
Know one, know all.