3 December 2020 Brooke Shields 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.
3 December 2020 Jessica Capshaw I love what I do and I think it shows. As my kids get older, they can see me as a mom who loves working.
3 December 2020 Ashley Greene When I was 15, I worked at a dry cleaner because I wanted Abercrombie & Fitch jeans. My mom told me I could have $20 jeans, not $70 jeans, unless I was willing to work for them. So I did!
3 December 2020 Barbara Ehrenreich Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
3 December 2020 Fred Couples My mom was so people-friendly. She was incredible. She’d go to the mall, and she’d talk to everyone. Give people a kiss on the cheek. I think if I wasn’t pushed around a lot, I’d be great with people. Maybe I still can be.
3 December 2020 Meryl Streep Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
3 December 2020 Al Lewis What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
3 December 2020 Alyson Hannigan My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she’d stick me in front of the camera. That’s how it started.
3 December 2020 Dayo Okeniyi I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.
3 December 2020 Marlee Matlin There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well.
3 December 2020 Lucy Hale I’m from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I’m born and bred country. That’s all I listen to.
3 December 2020 Miley Cyrus If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, ‘How do we get one of those?’ and she was like, ‘You can’t get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?’
3 December 2020 Sandra Bullock I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.
3 December 2020 Tyra Banks My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.
3 December 2020 Paul McCartney Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.
3 December 2020 Angela Kinsey Now that I’m a mom, I’m way more laid back. If you come into my house, don’t look for a coaster. Forget it. There is not a piece of furniture in my house now that is too precious.
3 December 2020 Angela Kinsey My very sassy, older southern sister is very quick to point out that it’s a luxury that my daughter gets to come to work with me. She does, and I have lunch with her every single day. My mom says I have ‘high class problems.’
3 December 2020 Charlize Theron I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That’s what I want for my son.
3 December 2020 Aubrey Plaza I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it’s meaningful, and I like the song. It’s a love song – kind of – but it’s kind of depressing and dark.
3 December 2020 Janis Ian I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.
3 December 2020 Emeril Lagasse My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it’s pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom, Portuguese and French Canadian. There’s a lot going on there.
3 December 2020 Charlize Theron So far I’m not surprised by anything about being a mom. It’s all pretty great – but that’s what I expected.
3 December 2020 Alia Shawkat When I get a new script my mom will read them and just be aghast. I think it’s hysterical.
3 December 2020 Norah Jones My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do.
