I was 17 pounds when I was born. My mother couldn't walk…

Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so…

— Diane von Furstenberg

“Whilst my mother couldn't give me access to the world, she at least made sure to let me know it existed. A kid cannot…

— Trevor Noah

I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all of those…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I was wild. My mother couldn't control me.

— Rohan Marley

Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing...…

— Vikram Seth

I do what I do in my mother's name because I couldn't help her then. Now I can.

— Patrick Stewart

I'll show up at every classroom open house and teacher conference,' she said, now in a voice that was almost frightening in its intensity.…

— Charlaine Harris

I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth…

— Mel Brooks

“Mother: “I couldn’t stand his friends from medical school. They were all pompous and awkward. They knew how to memorize but they didn’t know…

— Eula Biss

Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.

— Al Lewis

She was my mother. I couldn't threaten to slap, stab, beat or even name call her. I tried to think of something to scare…

— Jeaniene Frost

I had learned that there were substitutes for a mother who couldn't be a mother. You could find love with other people. You could…

— Lisa Kleypas

“Because my mother couldn't change my present, I decided to change my daughter's future”

— Manal al-Sharif

I admire the women who can have babies and jump right back to work. As a nursing mother, I couldn’t sit there and just…

— Nia Long

My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York.

— Victor Garber