Mother Image Quotes

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

It really bothers me when I see people doing my mother in drag. I mean, just imagine if you saw people doing that with your mother.

I never wanted to be a mother, and when I got the show I was really upset. I was like "I'm not sexy anymore!" The more you become a mom, you're not sexy, which of course is crap. But that's the way actors look at it. Of course, that's not true now. But everybody expects you to look differently and act differently.

The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.

One of the things I like about the show is it redefines the idea of what it is to be a mother, which at its most basic level is to take care of a child. It doesn't mean you have to look like the ladies in the Lysol commercials.

As a child, I perceived my mother as an old woman.

I remember, growing up, my mother had a work wardrobe. It was this very compartmentalized area of her closet. It was suits, but she would never wear those suits out on a date with my father!

American popular culture, like individuals in daily life, tends to either romanticize or demonize mothers. We ricochet between 'Everything I ever accomplished I owe to my mother' and 'Every problem I have in my life is my mother's fault.'

Moms in fiction and memoir get a bad rap.

I hate it when everybody thinks I'm a... what's the word, a marauding mother! It's bigger than that.