Enough Quote by Stephanie Land

My mom was a single mother in the South Bronx living in adverse conditions. Seeing her struggles to get herself off of welfare and…

— Andrea Navedo

For a while, I was feeling so creative in motherhood that I had no longing to work. I felt that my children needed me,…

— Carrie-Anne Moss

I felt I couldn't be a good mom anymore, but I didn't want my children to grow up without a mom. I felt I…

— Susan Smith

When it came to my childhood - growing up in a single-parent home, often struggling financially - my mother definitely instilled in me and…

— Misty Copeland

Growing up, we were a poor yet tightknit family. My mother worked multiple jobs and always made sure that her kids never had to…

— Nia Jax

Nothing in life prepared me for the way I felt about being a mother. Until then, I sort of felt like a blank sheet…

— Sissy Spacek

Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted.

— Debra Messing

I had a very positive, wonderful, happy upbringing, and still, for several reasons, I really didn't enjoy being a child very much. I felt…

— Finneas

The hardest thing that I had to do every day as a working single parent was child care, to have to leave my child…

— Chris Gardner

When I was growing up, my family was plagued by poverty. My mother, a single parent, worked around the clock to make sure her…

— Patrisse Cullors

Being a mom myself and it being a huge and important part of who I am, made it easier for me to play the…

— Lorraine Toussaint

My deep emotional connection to my mother, a remarkable woman who made a hard choice to save her children, and who valiantly struggled to…

— Mazie Hirono