Julianne Moore Quotes

I did say that I wanted to be a young mom, just because my mom was a young mom. It is better because I can be closer to my kids and stuff.

When my mom turned 91, I wanted to use the time that we have left in our lives to get to know each other as adults.

It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases.

My son has an old mother.

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!

The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship.

How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?

Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends.

That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children.

I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relationship with my mother, I understand that deep powerful love, and it's so beautiful. To be a mother to a child is the most brilliant gift; it's gorgeous.

I had a baby at 19 and was a grandmother by 39. Now, my children lend me their children to take them off to Brittany. It's divine. I'm quite exceptionally lucky. I've never had a week without having all three of my daughters on the telephone.

Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.

I did want a boy child because I had this romantic idea that a boy child when he's 16 takes his mother out for dinner.

Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me.

My kids seem to be more mature and older than I am now somehow. They've gotten ahead of me somehow. But they're very patient with me.

I wish I had more movies I could watch with my parents and not feel super uncomfortable.

I grew up with a mother who always had every fashion magazine stacked up on the side of her bed. When I was really young, I'd lie in bed with her, and we'd look at the magazines.

Brielle is my first born; I had her so young that we basically grew up together!

When I came out of school, my mum was one of the youngest mums waiting at the gate. She was the cool mum on the block.

For in those tacit understandings which maintain the bond of family union, the mother is really the mistress of her daughter only upon the condition of continually presenting herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection.

Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.

Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you've just met the person whose hand you'll be holding the day you die.

Sometimes I act younger than my daughters. But that's when they say, 'Mama, stop it!'

It's always lovely for babies to grow up in a similar age gap and it's nice to have cousins be of a similar age.