Sue Townsend Quotes

I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself.

I got married when I was 16 so I had to do shift-work to make ends meet.

Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.

My heart and prayers go out to all single moms because it's tough, and I can't imagine any teenager dealing with a baby and all those hormones raging.

My mother graduated from high school in 1969, and on January 3, 1971, she gave birth to me. She was married later that year, but by the time I was 10, she was a divorced single mother of two young boys. To make ends meet, we moved in with my grandparents, who were also housing two of my mother's siblings and their kids.

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

Mom raised me all by herself, and although we went through our share of lean years, she always worked hard to make our home warm and welcoming.

I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.

I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.

My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.

I was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me.

My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting.

What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.

I just decided to take some time off. I've been modeling since '93, '92, and that's a pretty long time. I'm a single mother and I chose to focus on her.

I got married at 17, had three kids by the time I was 24, and have never had much time alone. I never had time to develop hobbies. Now, if I have nothing to do, I just find myself cleaning drawers incessantly.

My mom was a hairstylist, but she quit doing that to raise the kids - there were four of us. There was no money.

When I joined 'Essence,' I was a young, single mother. I was 24. I hadn't gone to college. I wasn't making any money at 'Essence' - what was it, $500 a month - and I was struggling. So I was always looking down the road, always hoping for a better, you know, tomorrow.

My parents got married when they were 16, and they never had any money.

Parenting is something that I got early, because when you grow up without a father being there, and you see a single mother struggle to feed the kids, you do not want to put your own blood through that.

My biological mother had me at 16, and it was just too young.

When I was up in college, I had a friend, and he was the only guy who knew I wasn't going to be able to attend school no more because I had a child on the way. I remember we was right at the lunch table. I was like, 'Man, I should start boxing.' I felt like every fighter that's on TV made a lot of money. I was like, 'You gotta make a lot of money.'

My mum brought me up by herself, pretty much. She had me at the age of 20, and my grandmother was a single mother, too, for most of her life.

When I was seven months pregnant with Ariana, my husband cheated on me, so I became a single mother to a four-year-old and a newborn.

I wasn't going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

My nanny had me mam when she was 16.