Single mother Quotes

“The ideal-worker standard and norm of work devotion push mothers to the margins of economic life. And a society that marginalizes its mothers impoverishes its children. That is why the paradigmatic poor family in the United States is a single mother and her child.”

“I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.”

“What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.”

“We don't get to choose who we fall in love with. If we did, the world would have fewer single mothers.”

“I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind of odd. I played sports, but I was nerdy. Having a single mother, the pressure was on me to get good grades and a scholarship and go to college.”

“You know, I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind of odd. I played sports, but I was nerdy. Having a single mother, the pressure was on me to get good grades and a scholarship and go to college.”

“I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.”

“Being a single mother should not stop you from helping your children to reach their full potential.”

“Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.”

“It takes a tremendous amount of strength to be a single mother. To hold down the forte of a home, a life and your child's entire happiness.”