My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.

I never let anyone pluck including myself unless my mom approves. She guards my eyebrows. She's like the eyebrow police!

They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.

My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust and she knows I can take care of myself.

I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!

Just recently I was in Target with my mom shopping and out of the blue I see this father and his two daughters and he says 'Can they get a picture with you?' And I'm thinking to myself 'Am I the one millionth customer or something?'

My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.

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

I've never had my brows done - I tweeze them myself. I used to watch my mom pluck her brows that's how I learned.

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.

The fact that I'm very close with my past relationships is something I pride myself on. My mom is still close to her first husband. It's nice to be able to enjoy someone in a different form.

Growing up my mom was very strict about how I dressed and how I behaved and I said to myself that I wasn't going to be like that. But now I know I'm going to be exactly like my mom. I'm going to be worse!

I got a family house for everybody to live in - my mom my sisters and I. And I made sure that it has a separate apartment downstairs for myself. Family is more important than anything. We don't come from any money. So once I get them settled in in a nice house then I'll branch out and see if I can get something else.

I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom.

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.

Imagine my surprise when after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.

I was given baby doll toys myself and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me and her mom's had before her.

I was worried about my mom more than I was worried about the president. And then I was worried about the president and then I was worried about myself.

I make a lot of mistakes too and I'm constantly re-evaluating how I'm doing things and trying to be better every day whether it's as a mom or taking care of myself.

I could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I can't.

I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help not even Mom's.

I dress for the image. Not for myself not for the public not for fashion not for men.

I love all men who think even those who think otherwise than myself.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.