Community Quote by Alice Walker

My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to…

— Natalie Merchant

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as…

— Dolores Huerta

To be a mother is by no means second class. Men may have the authority in the home, but the women have the influence.…

— John Macarthur

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that…

— Dolores Huerta

My mother was a very unconventional kind of a woman.

— Pooja Bedi

My mother really held the family together. She was a perfect example of the kind of black woman I would love to see again.…

— John Henrik Clarke

Mum was a disciplinarian. Raising a child on your own forces you to have to keep the boundaries tight.

— Denise Lewis

There are some universal elements when it comes to motherhood - especially for Black moms. Black women are selfless. Many women think of their…

— Tichina Arnold

However diligent she may be, however dedicated, no mother can escape the larger influences of culture, biology,fate . . . until we can actually…

— Mary Blakely

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didnt always know how to be the nurturing…

— Amy Tan

No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as…

— Margaret Atwood

In my earliest of years, my mother was a huge force in my life. She was for all intents and purposes, a single parent.…

— Harry Belafonte