That's a big deal for kids when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'

You know I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.

My father still is a lawyer and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.

I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.

I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in children and teaching and writing.

My mom is like this hard-core liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

Imagine my surprise when after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.

My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said 'Mom they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'