I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same time I'm thankful for her. All I know is that when I'm a parent I want to be just like my mom. I can talk to my mom more than any of my friends could talk to their parents.

My mother worked in factories worked as a domestic worked in a restaurant always had a second job.

I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.

I am truly my mother's son.

What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

Motherhood is the strangest thing it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

A woman must combine the role of mother wife and politician.

Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.

Of all the roles I've played none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.

I am no mother and I won't be one.

My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.

It's the moms of this nation - single married widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers we're the wives we're the grandmothers we're the big sisters we're the little sisters we're the daughters. You know it's true don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out about a century ago that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning not the result of ignorance or accident its children will become the foundation of a new race.