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I'm a single mother. It's silly to turn down work.

My mother was a businesswoman; my grandmother was a businesswoman - it never occurred to me that life might be harder because you're a woman. It wasn't until later and I had a bigger sense of the world that I realised that.

My mother is Brazilian, and her grandfather was Italian.

She had to play the role of mother and father at the same time, and she did it to perfection. I managed to find a way through because of her. My mother is my biggest inspiration.

I had such a nurturing team of midwives looking after me with my first little girl, and their support gave me so much confidence as a mother.

Becoming a mother has turned my world upside down, but in a really good way - it's the best.

I agree with my mother that having children removes a layer of skin that you never grow back.

I don't beat myself up any more about going to work. It doesn't mean I'm being a bad mother just because I want to go and do my job sometimes.

Before I was a mother, if I'd been photographed in a bikini, I'd have been mortified.

I have been a parent since I was 25. That's a large chunk of my adult life. Mother or father, it transforms you completely.

Mildred Pierce was capable of great acts of love as a mother.

My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.

As my family saw them, men were untrustworthy, weak, and selfish. Our mother taught us to get along without them, to get along without much of anything, and to live well and have fun anyway.

I was raised in Hollywood by my mother.

Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge. Even for me who has support at home that most mothers do not.

I was lucky enough to have a mother who took me to the library - the public library - twice a week, Wednesdays and Saturdays. And also bought me books. And also read aloud to me.

For me, I may have titles like CEO, director or vice chairman but the best title for me is 'working mother.'

I have always had an entrepreneurial spirit. When I was seven, I remember sticking a sign on my bedroom window that read, 'Manicures and massage, come on in.' My mother rushed in, saying, 'All these weirdos are knocking on the door.'

Being a mother is a completely different feeling and my life has changed completely. Plus I have a new found respect for mothers.

I am not a helicopter mother.

I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.