My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.
I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports envir...
There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.
My mom was a '70s mom. She paved a road that no one had yet walked.
I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?
My mom used to tell me stories at night, read books to me - and I read 'em over and over and over again. And you know what I learned from that? I went back and looked at everything - Why do I like rea...
I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.
What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup - that's good in bed.
Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in...
I got my first tattoo when I was 16 years old and I went with my mom to get it done - she has a bunch too so we're tattoo buddies now.
I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me, and her mom's had before her.
I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.
If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies?
The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my...
It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.
My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.
I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.
So, I remember when I was a kid, I was waiting for my mom to come home when she was working late, and, you know, I was like, 'Oh my God, what happened to her? Is she OK? Did something happen to her ge...