My mother gave up everything for me. In Yekaterinburg, she had a job and an apartment in the centre of the city and her whole life. And in Moscow - nothing.
Finding someone to share your life with is one of the most important things a human can do and was preached to me by my mother.
Tennessee Williams was so adept at portraying characters who are both fallible and vulnerable. Women were a huge influence in his life, his mother and sister in particular.
Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?'
I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.
When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up.
I never thought to myself, I'm going to grow up and fall in love with a man or I'm going to fall in love with a woman because my mother is a lesbian.
You know it's very important, the role of a mother... I don't know, but it's feminism to me to love your kids.
My mother's incredible diaries, which she'd written from when she was 21, and even before that. She fell in love with my father when she was 12.
My mother's from Thailand, and they're very strict about girls in bikinis, but I would love to do a shoot in the floating market in Thailand.
I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends.
I'm very proud to be representing Latinas and women of color, young mothers and full-figured women. I just love that we're seeing different types of people on screen.
The birth mother is placing the baby out of love. I still believe that. Well, the ones we've dealt with who were actually pregnant, anyway.
I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.
I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother, what was war?
I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.
I feel being an actress is probably not half as difficult as being a mother, and I do not know when I will be ready for that kind of a decision.
