One of the darkest deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong who will protect us? If they are not imperfect how can we equal them?

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime welfare mothers immigrants and aliens the more you control all the people.

Fear is the mother of morality.

More than anything else my mother wanted to be an actress - a famous actress - which in the 1950s was all about being young sexy and available. She was all that and more. She had big blue eyes alabaster skin a heart-shaped face a beautiful figure. She was just a knockout.

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school and afterward went to work in Tokyo where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.

I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and like his mother.

You aren't famous until my mother has heard of you.

You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.