3 December 2020 Kristin Kreuk I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.
3 December 2020 Tracee Ellis Ross I’m extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don’t mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn’t exist, as did Oprah.
3 December 2020 Barbara Bush I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
3 December 2020 Eddie Vedder No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren’t cool, just to establish themselves. That’s what adolescence is about. They’re gonna go through that no matter what.
3 December 2020 Linda Evans I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.
3 December 2020 Jai Rodriguez I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.
3 December 2020 Arizona Muse I remember my mom saying that after you have a baby you get really thin. So you gain all that weight and then you just lose it and keep losing it.
3 December 2020 Lindsay Ellingson Growing up I always shopped at Victoria’s Secret with my mom and saw Angels like Gisele and Karolina Kurkova in the windows.
3 December 2020 Angie Stone My mom was a diabetic. Her sister was a diabetic, so I was already a candidate.
3 December 2020 Carrie-Anne Moss I shoplifted. I was about five years old, and I took a candy from a store. We paid for three of them, but I took four, and I went home and cried. My mom took me back, and I paid for the missing piece.
3 December 2020 Glenn Hughes I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.
3 December 2020 Dennis Wilson My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn’t even play the drums right – Brian had to show me.
3 December 2020 Charisma Carpenter I am a single mom and I’m the breadwinner and I have to work and I have to do these things and that’s just the way it is. I don’t think my son even knows any different.
3 December 2020 Beth Ditto Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.
3 December 2020 Alicia Keys I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That’s why I still love to sleep on couches now.
3 December 2020 Marla Gibbs I never thought I was a great mom. I always worked. I fell in love with my children as they got older.
3 December 2020 Brett Ratner My mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn’t miss that my father wasn’t around.
3 December 2020 Atticus Shaffer Just recently I was in Target with my mom shopping, and out of the blue, I see this father and his two daughters and he says, ‘Can they get a picture with you?’ And I’m thinking to myself, ‘Am I the one millionth customer or something?’
3 December 2020 Jason Derulo I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She’s the sweetest woman in the world. I’m looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I’m looking for honesty and a big heart.
3 December 2020 Emma Goldman 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?
3 December 2020 Barbara Corcoran Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.
