I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.
My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.
Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.
I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.
I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!
What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.
My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.
I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.
My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same time I'm thankful for her. All I know is that when I'm a parent I want to be just like my mom. I can talk to my mom more than any of my friends could talk to their parents.
My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.
Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
The man in our society is the breadwinner the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.
I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.
What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's.
I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.
We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.
My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.
A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.
When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, 'Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?'