My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.
My mother taught me to read.
I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.
My love of reading and the English language is something given to me by my parents, and I've passed it on to my children.
People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.
My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from school to school, but there was always reading.
My mother was a huge, huge reader. I think I picked up very early how precious it was to write things in books and have people like my mother glued to the page.
Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature.
My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.