Nia Long Quotes

I was a single mom.

When you talk about heroines and heroes, at the top of the list has got to be the single moms of America.

I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York.

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

I admire my mother for being a single mum. It's ridiculously hard.

My mom has always been a huge inspiration. She was a single mom raising two kids in New York. Now that is full-on all the time.

I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls.

Being a mom has affected me in the greatest way possible - and in a necessary way. Having my son has helped me to be grounded, and I feel like with a child you have to really think about things all the way through.

There is nothing I love more than my role as a mom.

To all you mothers out there who are raising your children alone either by choice or necessity, don't let anyone tell you you're not a family.

I love being a mom and having two kids. But I've had two C-sections, and I have suffered enough. That's my favourite mantra when it comes to motherhood.

The more I go through parenting, the more I say I owe my mother an apology.

Good mothers are underrated, just like good defense.

Being a mother is probably the hardest job in the world. I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to teach us.

I have often wished in the past few years that my mom were here to help me as I raised my own teenage son. As a girl, with my own mom, I thought I knew it all; now I know better. Somewhere, I know my mom is smiling.

I was suppose to write a book about being a mom, to organize my thoughts into chapters and figure out a structure to hang them on, to make a lasting point, but somehow I decided to go ahead and become a mother instead.

My mom had four kids, one with special needs. She had a full-time job, and she still came home and made dinner for us every night, from scratch. It was amazing.

Being a mom has changed me forever.

My mother raised three kids on her own, so I was taught that to be a working mom was a good thing.

As we all know, there is no harder or more rewarding job than being a mom.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

I like being a mother.

I always wanted to be a mommy.

I took a long period off to be a mom.

Single motherhood is an amazing thing; it's a blessing.