“My main goal with my kids is to teach them to love themselves, and understand their value, so they always make good decisions for themselves.”
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“My mom was someone who juggled everything. She had her own career, she raised five kids, she was Superwoman. And she was never satisfied doing just one thing because … she probably just had too much energy. So for me, it was important to have that because that’s what I felt like I knew best.”
“There is no feeling like that first little smile, your first Mother’s Day, which was so beautiful and sweet to me. The entire day my eyes were on the verge of tears because I was so happy.”
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“Thank you for carrying me, birthing me, raising me, supporting me, teaching me, and loving me unconditionally! The woman I am today is because of everything that you are!”
“I let her speak throughout the movie however many times she wants, as loud as she wants. That’s my mom, she will talk to the screen — she’s like, ‘Oh my god, he’s the killer!'”
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“My mother was this amazing, beautiful, glamorous sex symbol — but people didn’t know that she played the violin and had a 160 IQ and had five kids and loved dogs … She was just so ahead of her time. She was an inspiration, she had this appetite for life, and I think I share that with her.”
“We can just have so much fun together, and yet, I’ll still find so much solace in her support. That duality coexists the same way it would in a best friend.”
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“My child is the most important person to me, and her upbringing is paramount to my work right now. It’s very important that I’m present and she has a stable, innocent childhood. I feel so blessed to do what I do, but there’s nothing in the world better than watching your child succeed.”
“I tell my daughter every morning, ‘Now, what are the two most important parts of you?’ And she says, ‘My head and my heart.’ Because that’s what I’ve learned in the foxhole: What gets you through life is strength of character and strength of spirit and love.”
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“Girls are so different from boys. My advice to Harper: It’s not about the prettiest girl in the class, not even the smartest girl, but who is the kindest girl — a girl who is kind to other children, who works really hard and wants to do her best … It’s about making all the children kind — to be good people, to treat other people the way they want to be treated themselves. It’s the fundamental basics.”
“My mom had beautiful clothes; my mom is elegant; my mom is glamorous. But my mom is also really real, and I grew up with a mother who had babies crawling on her head and spitting up on her.”
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“There is nothing like the love I have for my daughter. We share every emotion with each other, our hopes, and dreams … We can talk for hours!!”
“She taught me by her own example, that the most evolved person is seemingly a contradiction — they are both the strongest and the most vulnerable person in the room.”
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“I am so proud of her and excited for people to be seeing what I have seen since she was a little girl. She is incredibly talented, and I love seeing her light shine!”
“My daughter introduced me to myself … My mother and I are so close, and I always prayed that I would have that type of relationship with my daughter. And she’s still a baby, but the connection I had with her when I was giving birth was something that I’ve never felt before.”
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“You are the most beautiful, kind, generous, loving, and — let’s not forget — strongest person I have ever met and the best part is that you are MY mum. I am so proud to be your daughter.”
“Whenever I have a problem or something I feel like I can’t figure out, I’m always like, ‘What would mommy do? How would she approach this situation? What would Jada do?'”
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“As much as she means to other people for other reasons, she is literally the life force for me and my family.”
“I can’t cherish you to death. We have to raise our children to be the adults that we want them to be, and that starts young. You can’t be so afraid that life will break them that you don’t prepare them for life.”
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“She’s taught me a lot about being a woman who isn’t afraid to be creative and expressive and to channel that energy and power, which she does in such elegant and graceful ways.”
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