Mother

My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.
Lorna Luft
Mother
Anxiety
Attention
Suicide
My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.
Lorna Luft
Mother
Behavior
Years
My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.
Lorna Luft
Power
Mother
Audiences
Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.
Lorna Luft
Mother
People
Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.
Lorna Luft
Mother
Shadows
My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.
Lorna Luft
Mother
Class
Guilt
My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.
Lorna Luft
Mother
Being
Disaster
Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.
Lorna Luft
Death
Mother
You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
Clare Boothe Luce
Mother
Divorce
Sleep
My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.
Susan Lucci
Mother
Father
Americans
First
Parents
I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.
Courtney Love
Mother
Now
Right
I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we had assembled for so many years; and apart from that reason I hold it dear because it is associated in my memory with my mother.
Pierre Loti
Family
Mother
Church
Memory
Reason
Years
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Sophia Loren
Mother
Thoughts
There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
Audre Lorde
Mother
Key
Want
Woman
This is the man my mother lived for. My career means something now because I've worked with Robert Redford.
Jennifer Lopez
Mother
Career
Man
Now