"I'm often asked what it was like to have a famous mother. I always answer that I really don't know. ..." — Sean Hepburn Ferrer

Once in a while, people would say, 'Look, your mom's on TV.' But as a young kid, you don't really worry about those things so much.

My stepfather was a brilliant and funny psychiatrist but he was a hound dog. He just didn't know how to be faithful.

In her heart my mother much preferred the intense few days of shelling, which brought freedom, to the languishing fear she felt every time she stood by waiting for the Nazi troops and later for the SS to march by, singing their songs of victory and supremacy.

She often used to talk about the fact that during the war, her mother, because there was a little food and no heating, would have her stay in bed throughout the day, especially during the Dutch Hunger Winter, to preserve her calories.