I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.
Rufus Wainwright
My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it, really.
I bought a racehorse, Tropical Saint, that belonged to the Queen Mother. I used to go down to Banbury and watch him train, but during a televised... →
Rick Wakeman
My mother had never had a day's illness in her life and never thought to have checks. Then, at 78, she discovered she had breast cancer and... →
A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies... →
Ayelet Waldman
Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every... →
If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband... →
By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for... →
I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are... →
The capacity for extravagant emotion that my husband finds so attractive in me can be exhausting, especially to a child. My moods are mercurial, and... →