My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age race or financial status.
My mother was 45 when she had me so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
I've been going through photos of my mother looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.
I am a grandmother now and that means age is creeping on creeping on.
It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.
I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.
What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.
I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
My mother enjoyed old age and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.