“We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.”
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“Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.”
“Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.”
“In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.”
“My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.”
“Being a mom's so empowering and incredible. I'm one of those people who believes that life brings things to you at a certain time for a certain reason, and if you just go with it, that's where the best moments come from.”
“I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'”
“Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth.”
“My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.”
“This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.”
“You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.”
“I slept with my mom until I was 16 years old.”
“If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life.”
“It's always been my mom and I against the world.”
“I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem - take advantage of that.”
“I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.”
“He was doing - Ray was designing the clothes for my mom's show from California. And one of the first appearances I ever made on television was on my mother's show and Ray and Bob did the clothes for that. It has been a long time.”
“Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.”
“My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.”
“I was almost 8 years old when I was watching a kid on a TV commercial, and I told my mom that I wanted to do the same thing. She said that I would need to get an agent and that she would research it.”
“I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.”
“My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.”
“My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple.”
“My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be.”