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My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.

My mother was a passionate, complicated, sometimes fierce woman.

I wish somebody would have told me, 'Don't try too hard,' because when I was younger I wanted to try really hard. I wanted to please everybody and be this perfect, polite little girl.

My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.

My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn't want me to be.

I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.

My mother is extraordinary. She understood me and never tried to hold me back.

My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.

I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations.