“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.”
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“My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.”
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“The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.”
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”
“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”
“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.”
“The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.”
“Mothers are the necessity of invention.”
“A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.”
“I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.”
“I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom. I feel lucky because I have the luxury of working only one or two days a week.”
“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.”
“Men are what their mothers made them.”
“My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.”
“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.”
“Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.”
“Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.”
“I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.”
Mom & Me & Mom
“My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.”
“There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.”
“In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.”
“I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well - obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well.”
“If I lived alone, Mom'd never sleep because she wouldn't know I was okay.”
“More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad.”
“Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it's like you don't ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it's kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are.”