The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.
[My favorite thing about motherhood is] that it's made me grow into a woman finally, and I finally grew up, thank God.
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.
[When] you're dying laughing because your three-year-old made a fart joke, it doesn't matter what else is going on. That's real happiness.
Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your activities and interests or a diminution of the great pleasures to be had in the everyday.
I see myself as mom first. I'm so lucky to have that role in life. The world can like me, hate me or fall apart around me and at least I wake up with my kids and I'm happy.
Motherhood is heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.
The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.
Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!
I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life, but that term doesn't seem to encompass enough when I use it about her. She was the love of my life.
If I've learned anything as a mom with a daughter who's three, I've learned that you cannot judge the way another person is raising their kid. Everybody is just doing the best they can. It's hard to be a mom.
As my mom always said, 'You'd rather have smile lines than frown lines.'
She drove me to ballet class...and she took me to every audition. She'd be proud of me if I was still sitting in that seat or if I was watching from home. She believes in me and that's why this [award] is for her. She's a wonderful mother.
My mom is my hero. [She] inspired me to dream when I was a kid, so anytime anyone inspires you to dream, that's gotta be your hero.
[What's beautiful about my mother is] her compassion, how much she gives, whether it be to her kids and grandkids or out in the world. She's got a sparkle.
My mom is a hard worker. She puts her head down and she gets it done. And she finds a way to have fun. She always says, 'Happiness is your own responsibility.' That's probably what I quote from her and live by the most.
We used to sing along to Judy Garland and Ella Fitzgerald records together. She had the most amazing voice ... She's always encouraged me, and she's still that person who, when things look dire, lifts me up and reminds me of who I am and that we all have a capacity for greatness.
I like my body so much better after I had kids. Is that a crazy thing to say? I'm more womanly. I feel sexier.
My mom is the greatest mom in the whole wide world. She's done everything for me to make my dreams come true.
I don't think of myself as a terribly confident person. But I have a survival mechanism that was instilled in me by my mother.
There's no such thing as a supermom. We just do the best we can.
I have found being a mother has made me emotionally raw in many situations. You heart is beating outside your body when you have a baby.
It's been a huge joy, this experience of being a mom ... I don't know how to articulate it yet, because it is so fresh.
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