As much as you'd like to deny it, you're mum is nearly always right!
Some of our fav celebs share their wisest and most memorable words ever said by, and about their mothers and motherhood. From Oprah to Kate Hudson, here are our fav quotes (extracted from Mum is Always Right, Patricia Harris, Orion) to help you get in the mood for Mother’s Day…
Kate Winslet
I love motherhood more than anything. It’s like it’s the whole reason for my existence now.
Oprah Winfrey
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Meryl Streep
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
Reese Witherspoon I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane, and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.
Jane Seymour
Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I’ve become a juggler, I suppose. It’s all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.
Madonna
On her mother dying when she was six: Now that I’m a mother, I know more what it was like to be her. I can’t imagine what it must have been like for her to be dying and have six children. I can’t imagine that feeling of leaving your children and not knowing what’s going to happen to them... I understand who my mother was by being a mother. I guess I’m really only getting to know my mother now.
Catherine ZetaJones
Sometimes you just need to speak to your mother.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.
Whoopi Goldberg
My mother’s great. She has the major looks. She could stop you from doing anything, through a closed door even, with a single look. Without saying a word, she has that power to rip out your tonsils.
Kate Hudson
You realize after you have had children that you’ll never love anything more than your child.
Audrey Hepburn
I was lost without my mother. She had been my sounding board, my conscience. She was not the most affectionate person—in fact there were times when I thought she was cold—but she loved me in her heart, and I knew that all along.
Reproduced from Mum is Always Right with permission from Hachette NZ Ltd, published by Aurum Press, $24.99 RRP
Kate Winslet
Reese Witherspoon
