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My mom's never been married. I have never even seen my mom kiss a dude.

If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.

I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

When I got into junior high school, that is when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.

I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, One day I am going to buy you a house. And she said, Boy, do not you be making promises you can not keep. I was like: No, Ma, it is not a promise. I am going to buy you a house one day.

These days it is cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they had be like, What is this?'

Every time I think I have something under control, it changes and I do not have it under control. I think it takes several years to get there. Jade is 19 months old, so right now I am on alert all the time. And as a mom I think you are constantly worrying about things.

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.

I must admit, even though I am the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I am going to check Mom's genealogy.

I did not know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She did not think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I have been both in my life.

With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information.

Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it is like you do not ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it is kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are.

I am lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.

I am more straightforward, and I speak up more than I did before. When I was younger, I wouldn't speak up as much, but now that I am a mom, things have changed.

My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I do not want to put myself in the position where I am in a monogamous relationship right now. I am not dating just one person. Sex and the City changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people.

President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois.

I do not have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

I love being a single mom. But it is definitely different when you are dating.

Yes, I always remember my dad's, mom's and my grandma's perfumes.