According to my mother, positively no one, least of all herself, had even the faintest suspicion that she was heavy with child at the time of my birth.
I was born into the business, literally. My mum was seven months pregnant with me before she realized it, so she kept wrestling like normal up to that point.
I stand here as the mother of three children, who knows firsthand how difficult it can be to combine family and a career.
It certainly changes your life. So that may be a cliché, but I think any woman would say that [day when her baby born] would have been the most special day of their life.
I would encounter W. E. B. Du Bois and the term double consciousness. When I read it, I thought about sitting in my mother's employer's family room, watching my mother clean while I waited for her to finish so we could go home.
I saw my mother go through surgical menopause, and at 35, I wasn't ready for that. I wasn't ready for the complications, like bone loss as a result of early menopause, that my mother had.
My mother had a cotillion, but she wanted to be bohemian.
My mum brought me up by herself, pretty much. She had me at the age of 20, and my grandmother was a single mother, too, for most of her life.
When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.
A figure in Los Angeles politics for five decades, my mother nevertheless had had her fill of talking to people by the time she came home at night.
The most important experience for learning to be a mother is your own mom's experience.
