Quotes About Struggle

No mom has it all together. We're all dealing with loose ends when it comes to motherhood and our children. Some of us are just better at keeping up appearances, that's all.

They had a big court battle over who got to keep me. Mom won; she made me live with Dad.

My mom knows what it's like to keep a dirt floor clean.

I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.

I grew up in a difficult environment, but I became a Christian as a teen. My mom and my sister soon became Christians also.

Having children can be such a gift, but it can be a crushing experience for a certain kind of mom. And I am that certain kind of mom.

Ninety-nine percent of my life I was lied to I just found out my mom does more dope than I do

Being a mom is hard, I think a lot of working moms feel that way.

I'm sorry you don't get it, Mom. Sometimes I don't get why I do the things I do. I just know I wake up every morning and wish I was dead.

It's like my characters, all my men are Dad and me in a mess; all my female characters are smart and hopeful, like Mom just trying to make the best of things.

Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.

When you talk about heroines and heroes, at the top of the list has got to be the single moms of America.

When I was a new mom, I used to think that life was going to be balanced, and I strived for that. But life is crazy!

My parents were workers. My mom, especially in my high school years, was a stock clerk at Kmart... My dad was a bartender that worked banquets.

Her daddy drank all day and mommy did drugs, never wanted to play or give kisses and hugs. She'd watch the TV and sit there on the couch, while her mom fell asleep and her daddy went out.

The topic of working moms is a tap-dance recital in a minefield.

Don't compare yourself to other MOMS... We are all just winging it, just some hide it better than others.

But you have to take control of your destiny. And sometimes that's not easy.

He had seen bigger men than he with mummy's handkerchief clutched in on hand and a bloody dagger in the other.

My mom always talks about how hard it was to grow up in a political family. It's always split up, and just - I want to have fun in life. No, politics isn't on the list.

It was a sad process for me to become a mom, and a long process. I felt so embarrassed that I couldn't have a biological child.

Being broke is a joke, I never found it funny / That's why I count my blessings / As much as I count my money...

The point is change can come about, but it only comes about when millions of people are actively involved in political struggle, the billionaires may have the money, but we have the people.

I think it's way harder when you have success, 'cause people tend to not treat you the same or look at you the same because they see the success or the money you make.