My father was very bright. My mother had enormous drive. Put that together, and that's my gene pool.
It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.
My mother listened to everything I said, carefully - not that what I said was particularly interesting, but I was her daughter.
My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.
My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.
Sometimes, somehow... I feel that ocean contains tears of mother earth, that mourns over terrible great sin done by men.
As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth.
I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.
Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael.
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
As a kid, I loved Paula Poundstone and Richard Pryor. But my mother was a huge influence on my comedy.
I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.
Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?
Our mother was so public - we always talked about her. But with her passing, all of a sudden we don't even want to talk about her.
My mother is who she is. I've become who I am. At some point I realized those two just didn't go together.
As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.
It seemed like an unachievable goal for one person to bring sunshine to one hundred little faces when what they need is a mother apiece.
I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn't, so I think it is possibly the end.
I'm the only pro-life woman in the Senate. I take this issue very seriously. I'm the mother of two children.
When a song came on the radio that I wanted to learn, my mother would quickly write down the lyrics for me. Soon after, I would be singing it.
I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.
