Complex sentence: Schimmel remembered her father as "a wonderful playmate full of fun", her mother made her feel that she was the child of her dreams and that her home was full of poetry and literature, though her family was not an academic one.
Split into simpler sentences: Schimmel remembered her father as "a wonderful playmate full of fun," and she recalled that her mother made her feel that she was the child of her dreams. She also remembered her childhood home as being full of poetry and literature, though her family was not an academic one.