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My real mother is a survivor, very strong and respected by the people who know her, but our relationship is not easy - but then, it was never going to be.

My relationship with my mom is so amazing. We never got to have that stage that people go through, like when you're 13 and you think you're too cool for your parents. When you're embarrassed by them and stuff. We never went through that because I was constantly working and she constantly had to be there.

My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life.

My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

It was deeply interesting to observe my mother closely and to draw her. During those last months, she wasn't speaking much, if at all, and it was a way for me to be with her. It felt very natural.

My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.

I am an only child, so I relate to the intensity of that single-parent, mother-daughter relationship.

I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she died. I was 16.

I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.