Famous quotes containing the word mother:
“I never saw a fatter man; he’d have given my mother a stone or two and not felt the loss. Round as the “o” in rotund.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“My mother ... believed fiction gave one an unrealistic view of the world. Once she caught me reading a novel and chastised me: “Never let me catch you doing that again, remember what happened to Emma Bovary.””
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)