Jodie Foster Quotes

My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane's.

I grew up with my mom; it was just the two of us.

My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.

My mother's a Peruvian Indian from Lima who raised me and my four brothers and sisters as a single mom.

I was a poor kid, and my mom was a single mother of three.

And last, my mom. I don’t think you know what you did. You had my brother when you were 18 years old. Three years later, I came out. The odds were stacked against us. Single parent with two boys by the time you were 21 years old. Everybody told us we weren’t supposed to be here. We went from apartment to apartment by ourselves. One of the best memories I had was when we moved into our first apartment, no bed, no furniture and we just sat in the living room and just hugged each other. We thought we made it.

I had an amazing mother. She raised nine kids, practically as a single parent, which is the hardest thing in the world. Nine of us! Day in and day out. She had to make sure we all had an education and that we all felt loved.

My mother was a working woman, and I was alone a lot. So I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom.

For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.

From the moment this baby came into our home, those two dogs have never been more in love. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever witnessed. People keep saying, 'Oh, you're a single mom.' I'm like, 'Actually, I'm not. I've got two boys helping.'

The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.

I find families intriguing, perhaps because I did not grow up in one. I was raised by a feminist, independent, single mother, a divorcee.

The fact that I didn't have a mom is a challenge; it was a struggle; and we made the best of it, and because of that my relationship with my dad is that much stronger.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

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.

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

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

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

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

My parents did divorce, but my dad has always been present for me and loving me and my mom as well when she was alive.

If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.

My father left... but I tell my mom - and I told my mom this when I was a kid - I said, 'You know what, Mom? Good thing he left because you're a strong woman.'

There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she's raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was growing up, watching all my mother did for me. But it wasn't until recently that I fully understood the price she paid because of how we had to struggle.