Childhood Quote by Amy Tan

My mother was very hard on me when I was a child. I think she was raising me how the world was treating her.

— Erika Jayne

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

If you aren't nurturing your self, what kind of mother can you be, anyway?

— Sandra Scofield

I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life.

— Jan de Bont

I longed to be a mother, and every good mother knows how to spot toxic and dangerous situations to protect their children, even those…

— Porsha Williams

My mother was a great woman. To look at her from the suffering she had gone through to bring us up - 20 children:…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

My mother can certainly be rough around the edges at times, but she also taught me to have compassion for people who have been…

— LZ Granderson

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

— Denise Lewis

There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she's raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was growing up,…

— Christina Applegate

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

— Ariel Gore

Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give birth to…

— Kim Cattrall

Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.

— Heber J. Grant