Parenting: Single Parent Quotes

Find thoughtfully curated quotes that reflect the everyday realities of single parenting - strength, tenderness, patience, and perseverance. These words offer recognition without judgment, inviting a calm pause amid schedules, decisions, and the steady work of showing up. Whether you are seeking reassurance or a spark of perspective, explore messages that honor both challenges and quiet wins. Let them encourage balance, celebrate love, and remind you that resilience grows in small moments, one day at a time.

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"My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop"

Pauline Hanson, Politician

"Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being"

Evan Bayh, Politician

"I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

Toni Morrison

"If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

Gloria Steinem

"Dr. Evil got shortchanged in the first one. The family dynamic between Scott and Dr. Evil - the adventures of being an evil single parent - needed to be explored"

Mike Myers, Comedian

"My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"Honestly, people have said everything under the sun. I just want to do my work, raise my kids, and hopefully find somebody who I can share my life with again"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps"

Dick Gregory, Comedian

"I was raised by a single mother and I've been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I've been surrounded by women"

Jon Hamm, Actor

"Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby"

Lynn Johnston, Cartoonist

Lynn Johnston

"All my friends were in the park smoking weed and getting pregnant. I didn't want to be the young black girl having a baby, a baby's father, being on welfare. That wasn't going to be my story"

Foxy Brown, Musician

"As far as unwed mothers on welfare are concerned, it seems to me that they must be capable of some other form of labor"

Al Capp, Cartoonist

"We share responsibility. It's important to have a good spouse; that's where I sympathize with single parents"

Hunter Tylo, Actress

"For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home"

LeBron James, Athlete

LeBron James

"I was not prepared to live as a single parent"

Annette Funicello, Actress

"Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life"

Martha Beck, Author

"I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities"

Bill Richardson, Politician

"And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties"

Patricia Hewitt, Politician

"Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor"

Lauren Graham, Actress

"Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through my divorce - I had three children, I was in show business and black. It was, like, impossible"

Diana Ross, Actress

"It's too late for that - trying to second guess it. It's over. I'm worried about how to get the kids through school and still write and practice law and take power of attorney"

Christopher Darden, Lawyer

"There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man"

Ana Castillo, Novelist

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

Roma Downey, Actress

"I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone"

Meg Tilly, Actress

"I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working"

Alison Moyet, Musician

"Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids"

Gilbert Hernandez, Artist

"I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule and balancing the demands of being a single mother, it's a wonder you can squeeze in anything"

Roma Downey, Actress

"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"

Ethel Waters, Musician

"I love being a single mom. But it's definitely different when you're dating"

Brooke Burns, Actress

"There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together"

C. Everett Koop, Public Servant

"For a lot of kids, the Boys and Girls Club is really a sanctuary, an oasis of sanity and safety for them because their home life is so tragic. Some of these kids have only one parent, and that one is addicted to drugs"

Judge Reinhold, Actor

"I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us"

Sonia Braga, Actress

"Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation"

Jody Watley, Musician

"My character Esteban is a guy who really didn't think he was gonna be there at this point in his life. He's in his early 30s. He's got a son. He's raising his son as a single father"

Esai Morales, Actor

"I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls"

Connie Stevens, Actress

Connie Stevens

"I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values"

Al Sharpton, Politician

"I've been overwhelmed; I was a single mother for a time"

Kelly Lynch, Actress

"I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom"

Eliza Dushku, Actress

"Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped"

Rick Moranis, Actor

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