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When I went to college, my mum was really sad, so she preserved my bedroom, like a weird time capsule.

When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.

I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.

My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.

Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

My mum wanted me to go to university.

I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself.

I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.

My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.