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My dad's a journalist, and he travelled a lot when I was young. There is no way my mother could have done that.

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.

My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.

While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.

My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.

I denied this for many, many years and years... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mother in the character of Edna.

My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.

Years ago, I did an interview about my mother for a publication called 'Info' magazine, and during that interview I told the reporter about my mother's leiomyosarcoma. She had had a hysterectomy, but at the time of it, the doctors didn't even think to look for sarcoma.

My mom was an orphan, and there was never anybody to tell her what she could or couldn't do. At the core, she's probably an artist - an artist and a feminist.