Company Quote by Scott Raab

My mom is an actress, but she never really pushed me into it, and it was never something I thought I would be doing.…

— Morena Baccarin

When the time came to say, "Mom, I want to do this as a job," it was brutal. She was really against it. There…

— David Copperfield

My mother didn't raise me to be a critic, but I seem to have become one anyway.

— John Updike

My mom was terrific. I described my mom once. If fear was a color, she was color blind. Nothing frightened her. If I told…

— Les Wexner

There were people who would complain about their jobs, and my mother would walk away from that job. I liked that a lot about…

— Faith Ringgold

I don't think I'd have been able to be what I am if it wasn't for my mother. I started in the industry very…

— Amrita Rao

I understood somehow my mother's frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that…

— Betty Friedan

I always told my mother I wanted a job where I could have a lot of fun and have a lot of time off.…

— Sherman Hemsley

There is no way that my mother hasn't influenced my career. She's my first critic. She's my best critic. She has the best instincts…

— Lena Dunham

My mom worked as an education director.

— Josh Gondelman

Since a very young age, my mother made sure to tell me about the plight of women... As she raised my awareness about women's…

— Zainab Salbi

My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business in copper and aluminum wire. He was…

— Carmen Busquets