Words matter. These are the best Stepmother Quotes from famous people such as Karin Slaughter, Desiderius Erasmus, Euripides, Tony Goldwyn, Elizabeth Gaskell, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When I was growing up, my stepmother’s sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime.
Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another’s.
Better a serpent than a stepmother!
When my stepmother had my sister, Katharine Hepburn dropped by to say hello. She came with George Cukor, who wasn’t a star, but he was a famous director. He was also my grandmother’s best friend, so I knew him well as a kid. But when George showed up with Katharine Hepburn, I was utterly star struck.
To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
My stepmother wanted to be an actress.
When I was about 19, my stepmother said – because this was back in the ’80s – that I had Robert Wagner’s pompadour. I said, ‘What are you talking about? You mean the guy from ‘Hart to Hart?’
My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
Being a stepmother has worked out very well for me. I love my stepchildren very much.
My father’s an opera nut, and my stepmother used to work at the Metropolitan Opera, so I had a lot of opera immersion. I like the grandness and pretention of it.
My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.
I think if I tried to be the stern parent, we would have slipped into Cinderella mode – with me as the evil stepmother!
There was no convincing me that a stepmother could be anything but a wicked ogre, and I acted accordingly.
I never had that wicked stepmother or evil stepfather thing at all. I’m very close to both step-parents and I consider them to be my parents, too.
I certainly think Halle Berry’s a wonderful role model. She’s a terrific stepmother and has shown that in so many beautiful ways and has made such enormous strides for women culturally and such great successes as an actress and philanthropist.
Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn’t think I could understand poetry; I didn’t think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
I’m brilliant at cooking my stepmother’s scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.
That’s nice, to be compared to Joanna Lumley. She played my mother once in ‘Ella Enchanted.’ I was one of the ugly sisters, and she was the stepmother, so that was great. I’ll take that comparison, thank you.
My stepmother Angela is an Italian from New York City. I based Rhoda on her and a Jewish friend named Penny Ann Green. People often said that Rhoda seemed to be Italian. That was the Angela seeping through.
