My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to.
My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.
My mother was a passionate, complicated, sometimes fierce woman.
My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.
I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my sisters, and I know the anger that she went through.
My mother was one of the most dynamic and brilliant women I have ever known. She was also mercurial and unfocused.
My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn't want me to be.
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 had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life.
Seeing my mother become very strong and very independent had a huge impact on me.