Until adolescence I thought I ...

Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I was the wrong daughter.
 Carrie Fisher

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I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.
 Carrie Fisher
My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.
 Carrie Fisher
As a matter of fact [my mother] is very happily married. To a very nice southern gentleman named Roanoke - her first non-Jewish husband, as she likes to say.
 Carrie Fisher
Now it's dedicated to my grandparents and to both of my parents. The first book was dedicated to my mother so I thought maybe it was my father's turn, but then I realized that everyone would jump on that and assume I'd had some falling out with my mother, which is absolutely not the case.
 Carrie Fisher
If some gang were threatening your family, you'd go looking for someone butch to help, right? Any maybe if your mother were sick or something, you'd find someone a bit more fey.
 Carrie Fisher