Family: Mother Quotes

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"We felt often that we were perceived as mothers trying to be lawyers, while a male colleague of ours who had a young child was perceived as a lawyer who also happened to be a father"

Anne C. Weisberg, Writer

"It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles"

Brooke Shields, Actress

"When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice"

Robert Wyatt, Musician

"My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it"

Damien Hirst, Artist

"I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day"

Steven Cojocaru, Critic

"They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself"

Patricia Richardson, Actress

"Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing"

Ricki Lake, Entertainer

"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else"

Kiefer Sutherland, Actor

"Growing up, my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly"

Aaron Neville, Musician

"As a mom, I always feel I have to protect them. I talk about them because they are the most important things in my life, but they are private people. I won't use them for my own press"

Jami Gertz, Actress

"But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations"

Patricia Richardson, Actress

"The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French"

Charlotte Gainsbourg, Actress

"I also think a Hot Mom is someone who can connect with what's current in her kids' world"

Jami Gertz, Actress

"My mother loved the Bible"

Goldie Hawn, Actress

"For when a child is born, the mother also is born again"

Gilbert Parker, Politician

"The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed, to embrace uncertainty and imperfection"

Arianna Huffington, Journalist

"Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be perfect mom. Not going to happen"

Arianna Huffington, Journalist

"There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son"

Franz Grillparzer, Poet

"I never thought to myself, I'm going to grow up and fall in love with a man, or I'm going to fall in love with a woman, because my mother is a lesbian"

Ally Sheedy, Actress

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

Meryl Streep, Actress

"My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa. She taught me a lot"

Tommy Hilfiger, Designer

"My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated, regardless of age, race, or financial status"

Tommy Hilfiger, Designer

"We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings"

F. H. Bradley, Philosopher

"It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing"

Bela Lugosi, Actor

"Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children"

Maxim Gorky, Novelist

"Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom"

Kevyn Aucoin, Artist

"I called my mother up and I said, 'You know, I've been to the best doctors in the world and I've spent almost half a million dollars and they're telling me I have symptoms of a P.O.W. and all I did was grow up in your home'"

Darrell Hammond, Comedian

"But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do"

Cheryl Tiegs, Model

"I am scared of becoming a mother"

Liv Tyler, Actress

"Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important"

Elle Macpherson, Model

"Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth"

Mary Antin, Activist

"My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system"

Marilyn Hacker, Poet

"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children"

Jessica Lange, Actress

"She's 32, and she has three children. She loves to be pregnant but she doesn't want anymore children in her life. So she decided to help another couple. And she's just been amazing"

Cheryl Tiegs, Model

"I constantly looked for motherly protection"

Michael Reagan, Radio host

"I always wanted to be a mom"

Kate Hudson, Actress

"I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them. I respect it so much that the sitcom itself and Ed Norton: I'm not playing Ed Norton, but my version of it, 'cause I'm a black man"

Mike Epps, Comedian

"One of the things I like about the show is it redefines the idea of what it is to be a mother, which at its most basic level is to take care of a child. It doesn't mean you have to look like the ladies in the Lysol commercials"

Lauren Graham, Actress

"I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her"

Julie Walters, Actress

"I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish"

Julie Walters, Actress

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