I grew up as an only child with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
The promise of America is my life's story - born into inner-city Brooklyn, the son of a single mother, to being elected… — Byron Donalds Copy Share Image
I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
I celebrate my life, whether it's being a single mother, wearing diamonds, or holidaying in exotic places. — Sushmita Sen Copy Share Image
I have been a daughter, a bride, a mother, a divorcee, a widow, a single mother, a grandmother, a breadwinner, and, ultimately… — Lorrie Morgan Copy Share Image
I'm not going to normally get hired to play those emotional things, and I'm capable of it. I was raised by a… — Jason Momoa Copy Share Image
When I was seven months pregnant with Ariana, my husband cheated on me, so I became a single mother to a four-year-old… — Kim Zolciak-Biermann Copy Share Image
Mine wasn't a lakes-and-boats kind of childhood. I grew up on a Glasgow council estate with a single mother. For our holidays,… — Kelly Macdonald Copy Share Image
There's tens of millions of families with single mothers who are living at 100 to 200 percent below the poverty level and… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility… — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
My mom was a single mother. She had six siblings in a big Irish family, all descended from shanty Irish folks who… — Rory O'Malley Copy Share Image
Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could… — Rose Kennedy Copy Share Image
My album Pain Medicine might not make all of America feel better, but for single mothers and women who have been hurt… — K.Michelle Copy Share Image
I came from nothing. My mother was a single mother in the streets. She did everything she could do. Me and my… — Trae tha Truth Copy Share Image
It goes without saying that what a girl goes through, boys could not even comprehend. If we get the flu, we need… — Gavin Rossdale Copy Share Image
So what do people see when they read that well-behaved women rarely make history? Do they imagine good-time girls in stiletto heels… — Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Copy Share Image
Being a mother is not about what you gave up to have a child, but what you've gained from having one. — Sunny Gupta Copy Share Image
I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker,… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
I grew up with a single mother who brought us up. I always look back at my career, and everything that has… — Prabal Gurung Copy Share Image
My mom was a single mother in the South Bronx living in adverse conditions. Seeing her struggles to get herself off of… — Andrea Navedo Copy Share Image
I was born in the UK and brought up by my single mother in Ghana, where being black was unexceptional. As an… — Sam Gyimah Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to change your approach to how you see yourself when you suddenly get divorced. And you have to think… — Amber Rudd Copy Share Image
You know, I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind of odd.… — Sarah Shahi Copy Share Image
I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule… — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
I've been an activist since I was a teenager. I was always curious about what we would now call social justice. I… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her up… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Lauren realizes right then that the prospect of being single—of recent events leading to a divorce and her being a single mother… — Patrick Anderson Jr Copy Share Image
When I joined 'Essence,' I was a young, single mother. I was 24. I hadn't gone to college. I wasn't making any… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It's a story about a… — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image
Barack Obama was elected during my second year of college, and save for his skin color, he had much in common with… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
Single mothers have as much to teach their children as married mothers and as much love to share--maybe more. Yet their motives… — Anne Cassidy Copy Share Image
I've had the kind of complex life I write about. I was a single mother for 12 years. I'd been engaged. The… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Remember that the task of a single mom is not a joke. It is very difficult for children to be raised by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The ideal-worker standard and norm of work devotion push mothers to the margins of economic life. And a society that marginalizes its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“Just because I didn't have a spouse to help and enjoy those activities with didn't mean they couldn't happen. Just because my… — emma johnson Copy Share Image
My mother, Mary, has been a guiding force for as long as I can remember through the examples she's set as a… — Richelieu Dennis Copy Share Image
I was raised by a hard-working single mother, so my first role model was a woman. My only caretaker was a woman,… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Let us leave the EEC, abolish human rights laws, take TV sets, pool tables and phones out of prisons, bring back corporal… — Ken Bates Copy Share Image
I eat excellent bread, clean meat, good crisp veggies, organic fruits and nice wine and cheese. It is one of the things… — Rachael Taylor Copy Share Image
