Affect Quote by John Cleese

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

— Jan de Bont

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 relationship with my mother was unhealthily close. She was very supportive but wanted to fulfil her ambitions though me and was very reluctant…

— David Starkey

My mother had been an incredibly bright kid but her family couldn't afford for her to stay in education. So she lived through me.…

— David Starkey

My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was…

— Maureen Forrester

My mother became a big problem... She was a complete narcissist. When I broke free her narcissisticness came out and it was tough to…

— Lady Colin Campbell

My mother was strong-willed, demanding, and very supportive all at the same time.

— Michael Spence

I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from her entirely. No…

— Sarah Dessen

Mothers and daughters generally have fairly complex relationships, and ours was made much more so by Mother's illness. She had Parkinson's disease, which was…

— Alice Munro

My relationship with my mom is so amazing. We never got to have that stage that people go through, like when you're 13 and…

— Hilary Duff

Me personally, I'm real close to my mom. She raised me. It was a single-parent home situation. She did everything: cooked, worked two jobs,…

— G-Eazy

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