mother

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

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

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.

My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

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

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

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

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.

You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.