"In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live."
― Ethel Waters
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Mom
― Ethel Waters
More From Ethel Waters
- "Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn’t live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."
- "I had always loved John Ford’s pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me."
- "We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can."
More In Mom
- "Failure is unfortunately as common as success."― Sanjay Kumar
- "I’ve been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?"― Tarsem Singh
- "Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands."― Marquis de Sade