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In the past, when I'd recorded during a break in a tour, it was so easy to sing, because I felt strong. Also, like so many new mothers, I wasn't getting a lot of sleep, and sleeping is such a huge part of being able to sing.
Sep 10, 2025
Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.
I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.
All mothers go through the exact same things.
One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
All my friends' mothers were appalling women.
I know what it's like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have.
We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant.
We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
My mom is definitely my rock.
I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations.
If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them?
We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.
Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it.
Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.
I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.
A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.
This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee!
All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.
I grew up in a makeup chair, to see! the women around me getting ready was so aspirational, It is about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
Few of us will reach our potential without the nurturing of both the mother who bore us and the mothers who bear with us.
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.
I know what I want to look like. I don't want to look trashy. I want mothers to be able to look at me and not have to close their kids' eyes!
Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.
I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'
I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.
Today there are people trying take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.
That best academy, a mother's knee.
I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.