“My mom was paranoid about my safety.”
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“Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.”
“My mom drives me crazy sometimes, but I have a good relationship with her.”
“I've always wanted to be a mom at 23, 24ish, ever since I was a little girl. I'm right on schedule.”
“It's her first grandchild, so she's really, really, really excited. I guess my mom is a little more stressed out than me.”
“Mom would kill me if I showed my navel.”
“I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.”
“I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.”
“Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.”
“My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.”
“Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.”
“Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.”
“The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.”
“My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.”
“I got my first tattoo when I was 16 years old and I went with my mom to get it done - she has a bunch too so we're tattoo buddies now.”
“I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.”
“My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.”
“I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.”
“Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American.”
“My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasn't supposed to, and I tried to keep her from finding out about it. I did a pretty good job of that.”
“I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.”
“My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.”
“Being a mom makes me feel whole and like I understand the meaning of life.”
“There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well.”