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I admire my mother for being a single mum. It's ridiculously hard.

I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.

My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.

I think I was raised by a really good mother.

I think, now that I am a mother, I look at other mums like Jo Pavey and just mums that go back to work and work incredibly hard, and I have so much admiration and appreciation for how hard it is.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences... everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving - she's better than me.

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

Above all, there is Mother. She taught me how to love, how to have respect for other people.