Susan Kelechi Watson Quotes

Thank God I have four sons. The mother/daughter relationship is one of mankind's great mysteries, and for womankind, it can be hellaciously complicated. My mother and I are quintessential examples of the rewards and frustrations, and the joys and infuriations it can yield.

Women often have a fraught relationship with their mothers, even though that's the most important relationship in their lives.

Mothers and daughters find in each other the source of great comfort but also of great pain. We talk to each other in better and worse ways than we talk to anyone else.

Women as mothers grapple with corresponding contradictions. The adoration they feel for their grown daughters, mixed with the sense of responsibility for their well-being, can be overwhelming, matched only by the hurt they feel when their attempts to help or just stay connected are rebuffed or even excoriated as criticism or devilish interference.

I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against our daughters.

Motherhood is more than bearing children...It is the essence of who we are as women.

Men are what their mothers made them.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases.

The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

My mom is one of my role models in a complicated way. I learned from her how to be a good mom. She was one of those natural moms who really took to it. Her chosen profession was teaching. She loves kids. But she was extremely frustrated and unhappy because for much of my life she was a stay-at-home mom.

There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.

Mama never told me, 'Bess, you did good.' She wanted the best for us and she was an incredible administrator. She ran those three kids, that house, the whole bit. But if I looked fine, she'd find something wrong - the color, the hem... I used to tell her, 'Mama, don't worry when you're not with me, because you're with me.'

How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

The most important experience for learning to be a mother is your own mom's experience.

I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.

Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us.

You really get your sense of women, to begin with, from your mom.

Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.

My mother was a domestic goddess and Mother Earth figure. She was sweet and placid - just what the perfect wife was supposed to be and I was determined not to be.

Every woman has a mother, and every woman will have an issue with that mother and things that mother did or didn't do. It just depends on how you choose to process the lessons that you learned from your own mother.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

I'm in charge of raising a young woman one day, to be a mother and hopefully a wife.

I feel so honored to be a mom and get to do something that women have done for thousands of years.

My daughter is in more competition with me. I never wanted to be bigger than my mother or to challenge her.