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When I looked further into my mother's history, I realised that her anxieties and her neuroses could be accounted for by facts from a very early age. Her parents, William Henry Jones and Sarah Emily, were desperately poor.

— John Rhys-Davies

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous man who ran a shop in Dundee giving a lot of people tick. When he died, a lot of people hadn't paid their bills, so he died with a lot of debt. After he died, my mother went doolally.

— Brian Cox

I think my mother was always worried about me when she was alive.

— Martha Wainwright

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.

— Amy Tan

My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to.

— Natalie Merchant

My parents were born in 1906 and 1907. I think the experience of the Depression greatly influenced the way they thought about the world.

— Janet Yellen

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my sisters, and I know the anger that she went through.

— Nate Robinson

I think I was raised by a really good mother.

— Dean Winters

✗Opposing Perspectives

My mother was a star-struck girl from a little town in Arkansas who had gone to finishing school in New York, and whose mother had given her anything she ever wanted.

— George Hamilton

Mum had regular mental tests with her specialist, but because of her academic background, she became brilliant at manipulating them.

— Kevin Whately