More than a hundred people shared the best advice they got from mom, or their best memories. Here are our favorite submissions.
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As a mother, “You find out just how much you can love and sacrifice for another human being. You find a strength and fire within you that you never knew you had. I never truly understood my mother as a woman until I became a mother myself.”
My mother has been dead for fourteen years, but she pipes up loud and clear to say that she dislikes the way I describe her. She insists that she was a much better woman and mother than I say she was … she’s probably right.
Arianna Huffington and her sister, Agapi, reflect on the lessons they learned from their mother.