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There were times my mom and I butted heads - over my curfew, over something like that. Whenever we would hit these moments of emotional backfire, she would say, 'You just don't understand what it's like to be a mother... I could never handle losing you.' I was like, 'OK, but just, like, chill out.'

My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.

Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.

I am like a friend to my children, but when things get out of hand, the 'mum' in me springs up!

I'm a mother myself, and sometimes mothers get a bad rap just because they've tried to do their job. Some people have more of a knack for it than others do, but almost all of it falls to, 'My mother's suffocating me.' Whatever.

I've seen my own kids go through their own ups and downs, and as a mother, you want to make it better.

My mum's advice is never to whine to my friends, so they never see the other side of me. I save all my problems for my mother.

I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'

'I am a bad mother.' Every Christmas, this is what I think because the holiday season fills me with such anxiety. I'm sure that other mothers are happily baking cookies, decorating trees, and finding perfect gifts for everyone.

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.