Conventional wisdom Quote by Cecile Richards

I grew up in the city of Detroit, where a lot of people didn't have work opportunities, but they were good, hard-working people, including…

— Stacy Brown-Philpot

I was raised by a single mom who had to put herself through school while looking after two kids. And she worked hard every…

— Barack Obama

Raising me as a single parent, my mother held many jobs. Most of them had to do with the betterment and the advancement of…

— Ayanna Pressley

My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma.…

— Dwight Yoakam

My parents were on the road a lot in the 1970s. Winifred Kelly, a nurse from the hospital where I was born, was hired…

— John Carter Cash

I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me, it was books and travel and some good teachers.

— James A. Michener

My mom was really busy when I was growing up, but she did a really good job in terms of balancing her home life…

— Condola Rashad

I think my mother had a lot of opportunity when she was a kid. She was a model, and she did a lot of…

— Kim Basinger

God bless my mother - she's long gone now, but she'd work all day and go to school at night. She started out in…

— Jonathan Banks

My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery…

— Dolores Huerta

We had all the advantages of being in, you know, the '50s and the '60s, where a one-income household could actually support a family.…

— Jill Stein

My mother, who graduated from high school at sixteen, had no hope of affording college, so she went to work in the local post…

— Tom Brokaw