Pastoral Resources

I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.

I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.

I don't believe in messing with mother-nature too much.

At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers.

I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?

I am scared of becoming a mother.

I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children.

I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.

When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going.

I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.

It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.