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I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in embracing my differences and loving them despite what others said.

— Taye Diggs

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did, she thought it was an act of rebellion against her. But it was just me being me.

— Pink

What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.

— Jamaica Kincaid

My mother was totally different from the mothers of my friends. She would never separate from me. In a way, my life belongs to her. When I was a child, she complained that I was anorexic, so they sent me to places to get me to eat. When I look at pictures of myself, I was just a normal-looking child. It was her fantasy.

— Chantal Akerman

My mother tried her best to give us a sense of self-esteem.

— James McBride

Growing up, my parents treated my brother and me with absolute equality.

— Anushka Sharma

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

— James MacArthur

There were times my mom and I butted heads - over my curfew, over something like that. Whenever we would hit these moments of emotional backfire, she would say, 'You just don't understand what it's like to be a mother... I could never handle losing you.' I was like, 'OK, but just, like, chill out.'

— Brie Larson

My mother talked about the stories I used to spin as a child of three, before I started school. I would tell this story about what school I went to and what uniform I wore and who I talked to at lunchtime and what I ate, and my mother was like, 'This girl does not even go to school.'

— Lupita Nyong'o

✗Opposing Perspectives

My mother always told me to take pride in my appearance.

— Lulu

My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.

— Tamara Mellon