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My mother listened to everything I said, carefully - not that what I said was particularly interesting, but I was her daughter.

— Susan Shreve

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking.

— Diane Keaton

I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

— John D. Voelker

My mom has obviously had a powerful influence on my life, and her voice can describe certain things that I couldn't see in myself.

— Common

My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.

— Casey Affleck

I was dictating to my mother when I was 5.

— Judith Rossner

It was deeply interesting to observe my mother closely and to draw her. During those last months, she wasn't speaking much, if at all, and it was a way for me to be with her. It felt very natural.

— Roz Chast

My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.

— Jennifer Garner

I had a mother I could only seem to please with verbal accomplishments of some sort or another. She read constantly, so I read constantly. If I used words that might have seemed surprising at a young age, she would recognize that and it would please her.

— Amy Hempel

✗Opposing Perspectives

I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons.

— Dale T. Mortensen

My mother talked about the stories I used to spin as a child of three, before I started school. I would tell this story about what school I went to and what uniform I wore and who I talked to at lunchtime and what I ate, and my mother was like, 'This girl does not even go to school.'

— Lupita Nyong'o