“I had a lot of self-loathing, .. I've been self-sustained since I was 11. I've always been the one making the money, and to be flat on my back and .. so vulnerable and then be completely loved. To have my wife be there, 110% supportive. To have my children say, 'It's OK, Mom.' To have the people that I work for say, 'It's OK.' To have my fans go, 'It's all right.' It's like, what was I afraid of? I'm going to get healthy now, and I'm not going to carry that baggage anymore.” PeopleChildrenSelfWifeFansMomHealthyMy WifeVulnerableMy ChildrenFlatsSupportiveLoathingBaggageSelf LoathingMelissa Author:Melissa Etheridge
“The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.” SelfResponsibilityTeacherMomBlameChineseTaking ResponsibilityHomeworkHelicoptersSelf Reliant Author:Amy Chua
“I wish I had read Sacred Pregnancy when I was pregnant instead of the dozen books I had to piece together to try to make sense of it all. Anni Daulter has created what should be the new standard for today's mom: birth journals, labor workbooks, pregnancy memoirs, and holistic wisdom. It is gentle and enlightening, and lays the foundation for what we know helps women have the labor and birth they want and deserve: support, self-knowledge, and empowerment.” KnowsWantShouldTryingBookSelfHelpingTodayTogetherWishSupportPiecesMomBirthStandardsDeserveEmpowermentLaborFoundationSacredLaysMemoirMake SenseGentlePregnancyDozenPregnantSelf KnowledgeJournalEnlighteningHolisticWere Pregnant Author:Mayim Bialik
“My adoptive mother tirelessly worked most of her life to build up my self-esteem. So what happened was finding her started to shed light and destroy my mythos. So for the first year of knowing her, my mom kind of actually literally visited me in Detroit and kind of gave me a tour of my life - where I was conceived, where I was born, where she found out she was pregnant. It was amazing, Terry, and very emotional.” YearsFirstsKindSelfLightMotherFoundBornKnowingHappenedSelf EsteemEmotionalMomFindingsMy MomEsteemPregnantShedDetroitWere Pregnant Author:Keegan-Michael Key
“It's funny because the most sane women I've ever met are my mom and my grandmothers. I think you have to be incredibly sane and self-aware to function in relatively insane environments.” ThinkingSelfEnvironmentMomMetsFunctionMy MomInsaneGrandmotherSaneMy Grandmother Author:Jenny Lawson
“That's what just hit me: How you really can't have everything. You have to give up the old to get the new. You can't be the child and the mom at the same time. You can't be your young self and your old self at the same time. You can't know what you know now and feel the way you did then. You can't, you can't, you can't.” KnowsWayGivingFeelsChildrenSelfYoungMomGiving UpOld SelfNew You Author:Katherine Center
“Through the process of specifically writing this memoir, there was so much reckoning that I had to do. It was very difficult. It doesn't erase anything that happened, but I think that it was healthy for me to do it. The teenage self-loathing that I suffered from all of a sudden found itself turned into rapids with my grief after my brother died. I turned it inwards. In the same way that my mom processes her grief and her problems. This project, as a memoir, has helped me funnel it outwards.” ThinkingWayWritingSelfProblemFoundProcessDifficultGriefHappenedBrotherMomHealthyProjectsDiedMy MomMemoirMy BrotherTeenageRapidsEraseLoathingSelf LoathingReckoningBrother DiedMy Brother Died Author:Jesmyn Ward
“I remember, in elementary school, being asked what my father does and not knowing how to answer. When I asked my mom what I should say next time, she replied, "Just say he's self-employed." I love that.” ShouldDoeSelfSchoolRememberNextFatherAnswersKnowingMomMy MomNot KnowingNext TimeEmployedElementary School Author:Yoshi Wada
“My biggest influence is someone I really don't know at all: Tina Fey. Smart, funny, beautiful, self-deprecating, also a mom and a wife.” KnowsSelfBeautifulWifeInfluenceMomSmartFeySelf Deprecating Author:Laura Benanti
“My Dad played the trombone and I think my Mom played the piano for about two years. It is very self-driven. They pushed me to do piano lessons, but they were never forceful about anything. They never pushed me to sing or anything, it was something that I did myself.” ThinkingYearsTwoSelfMomDadLessonsMy DadMy MomDrivenPianoTwo YearsPiano LessonTrombone Author:Thomston
“My moms is strictly Christian but once I got knowledge of self and started reading she used to love when I would sit there and tell her some of the things that I learned. It gave her an open mind to where she started believing in the most high.” MindBelieveSelfChristianUsedReadingMomMy MomSelf KnowledgeOpen MindUsed To Love Author:Rakim