A Quote by Elif Safak

I find families intriguing, perhaps because I did not grow up in one. I was raised by a feminist, independent, single mother, a divorcee.

Elif Safak

Quote Topics

Because Did Families Feminist Find Grow Grow Up Independent Intriguing Mother Perhaps Raised Single Single Mother Up

Quote Author

Elif Safak
Turkish - Novelist
Born: October 25, 1971

My mother was a feminist and a divorcee who worked. She was very smart.

Alley Mills

The rumours and link-ups with my co-stars are upsetting. Is it a crime to be a divorcee and a single woman? Does being a divorcee mean you can't have a life?

Rashami Desai

My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting.

Michele Bachmann

Children are raised by single parents all the time. Those children - I'd like to claim myself as one, I was raised by a single mother who raised me incredibly well.

Dustin Lance Black

My mother's a staunch feminist, so I grew up with very strong feminist messages. As a result, I battled her in my teenage years because my image of being a man was a deformed one.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.

Natasha Lyonne

Growing up, I was raised by a single mother.

Winston Duke

I've never considered myself a feminist, but I'm happy that I've been raised as a strong, independent woman.

Shruti Haasan

For me, as a feminist, as somebody who wants to lift up women - because I do; I come from a single mom who raised three boys on her own - I feel like, you close the door on women, you close the door on humanity.

Theodore Melfi

I grew up in a low-income family. I was raised by a single mother.

Jessica Chastain

When the cinematography school told me I would have no chance to get a job, I said, "It's irrelevant." My mom was a feminist in the '20s. She taught me to be on my own, to be independent, to do what I wanted to do. I did not believe it would be difficult. It was difficult. In '66, I almost starved for a year and a half, and the only way I did not starve was because I could not find a job in camera, but I found a job in editing.

Babette Mangolte

We had a mother who could have been called a feminist. That's just how we were raised. Why do you have to go sulk off in some corner because you are a girl? What's the big deal?

Ann Wilson

I didn't even know how much of a feminist I was, and I realized, 'Oh my God, I was raised by a single mom who had to raise six kids. I have three sisters. Larry, you've been a feminist your whole life, and you really didn't know it until you've been presented with these issues.'

Larry Wilmore

I was raised to be a very strong and independent woman without anybody ever saying the word feminist or having any political conversation.

Kellyanne Conway

I was just raised in humble beginnings: three brothers together and a single mother who raised us the best she could.

Josh Gordon

If you find yourself perplexed, or perhaps in a quandary, remember that human growth is perpendicular. We grow up and we grow forward, we just have to keep on growing steadily in both ways.

John Rzeznik

A Quote by Elif Safak

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors