Quotation by

Melissa Gilbert

My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attem

Melissa Gilbert

History

Understanding this quote AI Analysis

Melissa Gilbert is saying that her mother, who she cares about deeply, has often changed how she tells the story of Melissa’s life by including details about their complex family background, which involves multiple divorces, step-children, and confusion. This ongoing reinterpretation has influenced how Melissa understands her own history as an adult.

More by this author

All quotes by Melissa Gilbert →

More quotes about History

See all →

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act an…

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.