Maria Bamford Quotes

My mom and dad just loved the fact that I fooled around. They just embraced it. They'd always kind of enjoy it, and they liked it when I made them laugh.

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

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

For a long while, I was really against Twitter. I mean, who cares if I'm in an airport or had broccoli for dinner?

I really don't like the idea of people knowing what I am doing. I find telling everybody what you had for breakfast is really uninspiring.

Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.

Usually, whenever my mom would come over I would try and put on music that I thought she would like just to make her feel more at ease.

I mostly want to be friends with my children.

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.

The severe household has no fierce slaves, but it is the affectionate mother.

I felt there was a lot of love in my house. And my mom was, you know, the basis of all that.

I love being a mom - I really do! I didn't realize how much I would love it!

I'm share a lot of details, but 98 percent of my life is still private.

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

Because of my unique experience as my mom's child, the beginning of my journey was more about me trying to figure out who I was on my own. My mom is one of the greatest moms and so supportive of all my siblings and of all of us being who we are, and not who she wanted us to be.

Even though I would love a little girl for me, personally, I love being a mom to boys.

I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relationship with my mother, I understand that deep powerful love, and it's so beautiful. To be a mother to a child is the most brilliant gift; it's gorgeous.

I think everyone's mother is slightly nuts.

There will be no 'Mommie Dearest' in the lives of my children, and no books like the one the Crosby boy wrote about Bing, or Bette Davis's daughter has written. My children love me very much, and they are loved.

I'm always really surprised by people who are comfortable revealing all of their secrets on TV or in a magazine. It's actually quite shocking to me.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.

My mom was tough.

I don't like this instinct of reality television to wear your lifestyle in public. I've really always loved the anonymity of things.

As a devoted mother and private person, and with complete awareness that my daughter will one day be old enough to read the news about herself, I would only like to say that I will never, ever be commenting on the dissolution of my marriage.

I think, over the years, the way my daughters' friends have embraced me has definitely made my daughters appreciate me more. Of course they take me for granted because I'm the one who's there, but listen, I don't want to be 'the cool mom' who lets things get out of control.That's not my lookout.