My mother was a star-struck girl from a little town in Arkansas who had gone to finishing school in New York, and whose mother had given her anything she ever wanted.

My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother’s genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free.

When someone you love has died, there is a certain grace period during which you can get away with murder. Not literal murder, but pretty much anything else.

Now let’s make Virginia Heffernan a man. Can you imagine the same kind of spittle-flecked rage directed at a busy working father who admits to feeding his kids Annie’s Organic Mac & Cheese?

We only have babies when we’re young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

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.

I think I would love to have dinner with Gandhi; Jesus Christ; Mother Theresa; Ingrid Newkirk, the president of PETA; and Madonna.

As I flew back from New Zealand to bury my mother, it occurred to me that no matter how harrowing her loss was and how keenly it will always be felt, there was, nevertheless, a...

What makes a narcissistic mother so scary? Her absolute power and controlling influence. A narcissistic mother is your only ‘friend,’ at least until you’re old enough to go to school.

But it’s not healthy!” replied the Hag. “A mortal and a god sharing the same flesh?””You know, this isn’t why we’re here. I can get abuse pretty much wherever.””Yeah,” sighed the Maid, “but I bet...

‘The Exorcist’ is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, seven years old with my mother for the first time. I don’t know why my mom let me watch...

Oh, my goodness, when you’re a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and – or Down’s Syndrome or cerebral palsy, there’s a bit of a shock you’re going to...

In a child’s eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power...

Coach is one of the few ageless brands. Their customer could be my mother, who is 75, or a girl who is 12, going on 13. There aren’t many brands you can say that about....

My dad’s family is part British and Austrian, and my mother’s family is from Goa, which is in the south of India. I looked different from everyone else, which now is such a blessing. It...

You realize that you habitually thought of Mom when something in your life was not going well, because when you thought of her it was as though something got back on track, and you felt...

Babies of around one year old are often active by day and wake frequently at night, for no obvious reason. Then a mother can feel desparate for sleep yet equally desparate to comfort her baby...

Without you there would be no me. I am everything reflected in your eyes. I am everything approved by your smile. I am everything born of your guidance. I am me only because of you.

You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he’s still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.

My mother remains unmatched in quality, competent in business process, and is never contested for any faults

Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit down beside us in the semi-dark and read...

The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother’s convenience.

My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day’s work.

When I was about six, I saw my elder siblings play chess and pestered my mother into teaching me. Very soon, I was beating everyone at home, and they thought it would be good to...

God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.

Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?

You cannot be the perfect wife, the perfect mother, and the perfect actor all at the same time.

Inside my house, nobody was home, except everybody, but it was easy to feel like those were one and the same.

Mother’s Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers are superior beings, that they have done more with their lives and chosen a more difficult path.

My mother kept asking me, ‘When are you going to do a gospel album?’ And I’ve always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.

But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.

A mother`s job is not complete till she has taught and imbibed God`s Words, and principles into her kids.

Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.

For now, for this year, I need to be a good mother.

The longest, most solid and complex relationship in my life is with my mother. It started before I was born, and now, when I am 71 and living in California and she is 92 and...

When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger’s voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men’s eyes...

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of...

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

When I was 15, I came downstairs one morning, picked up mother’s newspaper and, oh, what a shock! The Titanic had gone. The ‘unsinkable’ ship – but it had gone down so simple.

Mom?” Mother turned to Grandmother.”What?””She’s going to lunch with her kidnapper!””Take a picture for me,” Grandma said.

Happiness, she would explain, was when a person felt good, light, creative, content, loving and loved, and free. An unhappy person felt as if there were barriers crushing her desires and the talents she had...

Anyone who doesn’t miss the past never had a mother.

It was not easy for my mother, being a struggling actress and raising a child. We were these two sort of vagabonds, never knowing where the money was going to come from. She always says...

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

Pudge/Colonel: “I am sorry that I have not talked to you before. I am not staying for graduation. I leave for Japan tomorrow morning. For a long time, I was mad at you. The way...

I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn’t have. But we had a very happy childhood – pretty much...

Fourteen years without a mother had me believe I could be stoic when I finally met her.

My mother told me, ‘Son, nobody else but God knows.’ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer,...