My Mother the Italian Opera!

If you think I can’t shut up, wait until you meet her! She’s mad, loud, and proud! All the time 24/7! She’s Italian, once the hands and the mouth start going it’s like a Italian opera. Haven’t you ever heard the expression “it ain’t over until the fat lady sings”? Well, it’s not true, cause once this woman gets going it never ends!
~Gina
"That is what you are going to wear when we have special guests coming to dinner tonight? Good friends of your father and I and you think you’re going to wear that? You look like a hootchie momma."
~Momma Bonanno