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My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.

— Jill Lepore

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My mother was the love of my life.

— Colman Domingo

My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.

— Hugh Leonard

I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish.

— Julie Walters

My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.

— Paul Rudd

My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.

— Lisa Bonet

My mother was 18 when I was born. She split with my father when I was 6, and married another man when I was about 7. My mother was about 25, my stepfather was about 26, I'm six or seven, I was looking at them and I knew they were just too young.

— Theresa Russell

My mother never married my father. She was married to and divorced from another man, then she married and divorced my stepfather and then, ultimately, they ended up getting back together.

— Jesse Metcalfe

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences... everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving - she's better than me.

— Angelina Jolie

✗Opposing Perspectives

I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college.

— Roma Downey

My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn't end up in her position.

— Gabriel Luna