Age Quote by Peter Agre

My father passed away when I was two, and my mother was just 22-years-old back then. So young and only soul to take care…

— Bharti Singh

Thrust into single motherhood, my mom worked multiple hourly jobs to support my sisters and me. She couldn't find full-time employment that included benefits…

— Wes Moore

My mother lost her job, so I left school to work full-time to support her.

— Ayanna Pressley

After a tumultuous 20-year marriage, my father up and left one day, leaving my mother to raise three boys without the means to do…

— Theodore Melfi

My mother really struggled when we were young. She was on food stamps and welfare. Looking back, I know we didn't have a lot,…

— Paulie Malignaggi

My parents got divorced when I was five. My father left for a time, and my mother had to go on welfare. She worked…

— Neera Tanden

Until I was two, my mother supplemented her welfare payments by cleaning houses and waitressing. My father didn't help.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

My father left the family right after I was born, so my mother was working every single day to support me and my brothers.

— Gabriel Jesus

I'm an only child. My mother was raising me alone. We couldn't afford child care; child care hours didn't work according to her schedule.

— Ayanna Pressley

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

— Larry Elder

My mother graduated from high school at 15 and went to work to support the family because the eldest son went to college.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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