Patti Smith Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together, and I respond emotionally as a worker, a mother, an artist, and a human being with a voice. We all have a voice. We have the responsibility to exercise it, to use it.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Responsibility, Exercise

• I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but really as I go through life I realise it was my mother who gave me the most valuable instructions. I didn't understand or accept it at the time. She taught me to read and to pray - two things that have really stayed with me.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Father, Two

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

• My mother answers all my fan mail.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Fans, Answers

• I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Sibling, Childhood

  "'Even as a child, I felt like an alien'". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

• I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Loss, Men

  "The life and deaths of Patti Smith". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2008.

• I was so involved in my boy-rhythms that I never came to grips with the fact that I was a girl. I was twelve years old when my mother took me inside and said, "You can't be outside wrestling without a T-shirt on." It was a trauma.

  Patti Smith

  Girl, Mother, Wrestling

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

• My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Tragedy, Laundry

• I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.' And she bought it for me, and a lot of it was over my head, but I had it.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Book, Want

• For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Years, Giving

• My mother loved rock and roll. She loved high-energy music.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Rocker Patti Smith, 'Dream Of Life'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 30, 2009.

• I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.

  Patti Smith

  Daughter, Mother, Stars

• I have abandoned so many projects but in the '80s when I left public life to be married and have real children - I love my children and I would never sacrifice them for anything - I had to find a way to simultaneously be a mother and wife and fulfill my duties and still be true to myself as a writer.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Children, Real

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.

  Patti Smith

  Beautiful, Mother, Father

  "The life and deaths of Patti Smith". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2008.

• One thing I did have under my belt was, my mother lost her mother when she was 11. She mourned her mother her whole life and made my grandmother seem present even though I never met her. I couldn't imagine how my mom could go on but she did, she took care of us, she worked two jobs and had four children. She was such a good example of how to conduct oneself in a time of grief. When I lost my husband, I tried to model myself as much as I could on her.

  Patti Smith

  Mom, Mother, Jobs

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My mother took in ironing and she was a waitress. My father was working in the factory and he did people's tax returns.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Father, People

  "Patti Smith: 'I love Portland ... it's a real book town'". Interview with Jeff Baker, www.oregonlive.com. January 31, 2010.

• In the '50s you had to wear pink ribbons if you were a girl, and you were supposed to become a hairdresser or a secretary. I couldn't stomach it. Later on, when I fell in love with my husband and had children, that's when my mother's earthiness or sense of femaleness kicked in.

  Patti Smith

  Girl, Mother, Children

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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