Sophie B. Hawkins Quotes

I don't agree with the whole 'my mother's my friend' approach, because you're their mum and there has to be a difference between the generations.

The thing about having a very young mother who had you at 20 is that you expect that you're going to be old ladies together.

The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.

Sometimes I act younger than my daughters. But that's when they say, 'Mama, stop it!'

Beyonce has set the tone as an aunt. I've set the tone as a mom.

Cara was six years younger. She slept in my bed for years.

I'm not a chef, and I'm not an expert at anything. I'm just a mom and a wife.

I think if I'd been born ten years earlier when Ma was at the height of 'Avengers' fame, it would have been a different kettle of fish altogether, but she was very much a ma first and an actress second for my formative years.

Once you become a mother, your relationships in your own life change. Perhaps with your own mother, and perhaps with your sister. Perhaps with your baby-daddy.

I was 36 when I had my first son, Thomas, and 39 when I had Hugo, my second.

I am an entrepreneur. Beyond that, I am a mother and part of a wonderful family that is part of a wonderful business.

A woman's relationship with her son is psychological, emotional, even physical.

As a younger brother, you look up to your sister.

If you get a child when you're 50, you'll understand what children are.

It's always lovely for babies to grow up in a similar age gap and it's nice to have cousins be of a similar age.

Being a mother and wife are big roles.

When I go home, I'm not the DA. I talk to my son about his day, I talk to my daughter about her day. I'm a wife and a mother.

Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it’s just the opposite. After that, you’re either a liar or a fool or a villain.

More than two years after Mad About the Boy was published, the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries ] movie started coming together. I felt better about the material, and found myself writing a letter from Bridget to her son: explaining the original story of how he came to be, from his own Mum.

Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better.

However global I strove to become in my thinking over the past twenty years, my sons kept me rooted to an utterly pedestrian view,intimately involved with the most inspiring and fractious passages in human development. However unconsciously by now, motherhood informs every thought I have, influencing everything I do. More than any other part of my life, being a mother taught me what it means to be human.

In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.

I'm all right, not as good as my mom is. Maybe because I don't have kids.

My own son feels I'm uncool but my grandson loves me. Being cool or uncool is a generational thing. But as a personal thing, I really love everybody in sight.

How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.