Kathi Appelt

My favorite was the one about 'Snow White'. Those funky little guys with the beards. The poisonous apple. And that cool mirror the evil stepmother used to talk to. You know, she'd ask it all these questions: Who's the nicest? Who's the sweetest... Who's the fairest of them all? And for a while, everything was hunky-dory.

American Writer

Zach Braff

My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.

American Actor

Oliver Tambo

We were very lucky. My mother and stepmothers were on very, very good terms, and so we, the children, grew up as brothers and sisters.

South African Politician

Ian Mckellen

When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.

English Actor

John Garfield

There was no convincing me that a stepmother could be anything but a wicked ogre, and I acted accordingly.

Natasha Trethewey

My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.

American Poet

Philippa Gregory

Being a stepmother has worked out very well for me. I love my stepchildren very much.

British Writer

Hesiod

A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.

Greek Poet

Ruby Dee

American Actress

Euripides

Stepmothers can have different roles within families, from caretakers to distant figures, which can affect the use of the term.

Family Dynamics

The word 'stepmother' can carry emotional weight, sometimes positive or negative, based on personal or cultural perceptions.

Emotional Nuance

'Stepmom' is often used informally or affectionately to refer to one's stepmother.

Colloquial Use

 But they got in a real mess over which Domitia was married to whom and was either the great aunt or the great stepmother and so on to whom when they came to write it down. Domitia III is not just drawing on the pillar, she's also watching the action. You see, it's early,

Four sisters in Ancient...

 about and i really appreciate your sharing this story which is a family story but it's also a story that's important for all the generations to know my stepmother was born in colonial india nine years before the subcontinent won

The Triumph and Tragedy...

 lose their lives. I've heard from neighbors lose their sons, their husbands, their children. But I never thought that that would ever come into my life. A month earlier, my stepmother,