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Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

I know I am talented, but I was not put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it is not where it begins and ends.

My mom was tough.

When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.

I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.

My mom was not a movie star.

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

My inspiration was my mom. She is a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, I did not always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed. My parents always provided that.

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.

My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do.

My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.

Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.

I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.

I always wanted to be a mom.

When I was younger, I had a perm, and it was really big. My mom was a hairdresser, so even my dad had a perm! I looked like a poodle, but it was cool at the time.

I am a lioness. I have four cubs. I am a mom. I want to take care of my kids and protect them.

My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene.

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.

When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section? And she would look at me and say, No honey, I do not know what you are talking about.