We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children.
My mother came from a generation that did not want nannies. She had her first child at 24 and her last - me - at 42.
Over the years, things got so bad between my mother and I, we stopped talking to each other and started communicating by putting Ann Landers articles on the refrigerator.
I can’t say I was happy with your mother. I can’t say I enjoyed almost twenty years of being judged by her and always found wanting.
My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.
Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.
Improv requires one thing I lack that I think most mothers need - the basic instinct to put someone else first.
My mother was an actress in comedies. My father wrote scenarios. They were not opposed to my being an actor. I really didn't know what it meant, but I wanted to be one anyway.
This is the man my mother lived for. My career means something now because I've worked with Robert Redford.
Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy of being a grandmother is wonderful.
We found that when people put this issue on the table, it turns out that men acknowledge the issue, and employers and employees can work out solutions just as working mothers do.
It's just kind of empowering when you become a mother. You just get overwhelmed with this new confidence and you feel really in control of your life. It's been beautiful.
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Cynthia Purley: But sweetheart, I can't be your mother! Hortense Cumerbatch: Why not? Cynthia Purley: Well... look at me!
I remember the fact that milk was delivered every day by a milkman. In summer, my mother would make what now seem in my middle-aged imagination the most delicious iced milkshakes.
I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.
Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.
Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother.
I've been designing my own pieces for a long time. My mother's a jewelry designer, so we knew at some point we were going to do a line and dive into the fashion world.
My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries.
In the time when my mother began standing up against prejudice and racism, the vast majority of white Americans rarely thought about civil rights.
