Terry Gross Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• An interesting difference between African-American humor and Jewish humor, in it's kind of basic or maybe most austere type form is, African-American humor, some of it comes out of playing the dozens in which you insult the other person or insult the other person's mother, and so much of Jewish humor is like, you're insulting yourself. It's totally self-deprecating.

  Terry Gross

  Mother, Self, Differences

  Source: www.npr.org

• I was in an adolescent psychology class at Citadel when the guy said, if you had a mother who was beaten, there's a great chance you'll beat your wife. And if you were beaten as a child, there's a terrific chance you're going to be a child-beater.

  Terry Gross

  Mother, Children, Class

• "The Prince Of Tides" is a lot about my mother - what my mother would do after Dad would hit one of the kids or hit two of the kids, hit all the kids, hit her, she would usually get in the car. We'd drive out. She would say, I'm going to divorce him. I'm never going back.

  Terry Gross

  Mother, Dad, Kids

• So when the book came out, my mother stunned us all by leaving my father. I think three months before the book came out, she left my father the day he retired from the Marine Corps. They had a parade and march, and she came home and left.

  Terry Gross

  Mother, Father, Book

• I'm really interested in, who's booked the guests, who's decided to have Lena Dunham and to have the mothers of sons who were shot - sons and daughters who were shot by the police and, you know, the other performers, Paul Simon and Alicia Keys.

  Terry Gross

  Daughter, Mother, Son

  "Covering Hillary Clinton, A Candidate 'Forged In The Crucible' Of Conflict". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 27, 2016.

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