My father left the family right after I was born, so my…

When I was somewhere between child and adult, my father left us. My first family broke apart, but this liberated me to create a…

— Rumaan Alam

My father, he left the family when I was 13, so mum looked after us.

— Anh Do

The real Liberace - and I'll preface this by saying that I didn't know the real one - was a man who didn't come…

— Richard LaGravenese

Now I finally know how painful it is for a mother to be working when her child needs her.

— Mandira Bedi

I guess the most important thing I learned from my mother was you have to raise your own children. I try to say this…

— Alexandra Pelosi

I think a lot of people, but particularly a lot of women, get to this stage when I'd say they're over 50. We face…

— Anna Quindlen

My mother [was in advertising and] worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single…

— Felicity Jones

Every Mother is a working mother.

— Slogan

My mother had always been a working woman and so she would drop me to my mama's house everyday for the whole day since…

— Supriya Pathak

I have got two sons and they are seven and five and I believe that the most difficult thing in this world is to…

— Sussanne Khan

My mother was a working woman, and I was alone a lot. So I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom.

— Donna Karan

At an ERA fundraiser years ago, one of my favorite buttons was the one that said, 'Every mother is a working mother.'

— Valerie Harper

My mother was always working for a job, so I guess I was always trained that I should have multiple jobs, multiple aspirations. And…

— Anonymous

My mom was a single mother, working three to four jobs. She would take a bunch of crazy, grimy jobs at first, then she…

— Kelvin Gastelum

[My father] had a massive middle-age breakdown. And left the family. And then it just completely fell apart. And my mother was heartbroken, just…

— Bryan Cranston