The idea that I can provide for my mother and play at the highest level in the world for football and compete against the best guys in the world - it's a very exciting idea.
I played a lot of mothers before I even became a mother. It wasn't like I set out to be some sort of mother crusader.
My father is a Japanese-American and my mother is a Caucasian. So obviously, New Year's Day is big for our family, you know, oshogatsu. We had obon festivals every year. All those things.
I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.
In my own life, I find myself doing some task - driving or playing golf - and having a conversation with my mother or father, who are both deceased. I don't know if that means I'm mentally ill, but I suspect lots of people do it. And when I hold that conversation, different images of my parents appear to me.
I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.
I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman.
As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.
A loving mother-son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me - when I wasn't saying it to her.
I definitely don't want to have kids. I don't think I'd be a great mother. I don't want to have a kid and have it raised by a nanny. I don't have the time to raise a child.
Brain scans show synchrony between the brains of mother and child; but what they can't show is the internal bond that belongs to neither alone, a fusion in which the self feels so permeable it doesn't matter whose body is whose.
But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.
When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.
My mother relied on her memory to do things because she couldn't read. Part of that was not really knowing numbers.
I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.
My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
One of the best things my mother passed on to me was being an efficient multitasker.
Forecasting Armageddon has become trendy of late, with a great deal of attention being given to an interpretation of the Mayan Calendar suggesting that Mother Earth is destined for doom in December of 2012.
I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.
No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.
Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.
My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.
Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
I said something really stupid once. I told a friend that my mother was so beautiful, but my dad was ugly. My dad heard it and just laughed it off, but I felt guilty. It haunted me for years. I should never have said that.
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.
All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.
I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.
My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and a hard worker.
I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.
My father passed away after three years of debilitating disease, which transformed a very strong and bright man into a real wreck. And that is hard. You have to get out of that stronger, if you can, which I was lucky to be able to. I was the eldest of the family, and I had to support my mother and help my brothers.
My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.
Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.
