Mister Schulz said he thought she chose another man because her mother believed Charles Schulz would never succeed in life.

VOA: special.2009.10.25

When she was about four years old, she heard her mother struggling to play a piece of music on the piano.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

Her mother, Katharine Martha Houghton, was a great supporter of women's rights issues including the right to birth control.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

She told me her mother was killed in the games because she had hidden the egg that produced her.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

with her mother and brother. Safia says she wrote her first poem for a high school English class three years ago.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

Merry arrived seven years after her mother had her first child and she was quite a Christmas gift.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

She had to tell her mother! And Cazeau! As she thought of him, a whole new sense of life swept over her.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

In nineteen twenty-seven, Billie joined her mother in Harlem, the area of New York City where African-Americans lived.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

She left high school early to care for her sick grandmother, then to care for her mother.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

So when Kristi uses the truck to see her mother outside Washington, people are disappointed that she cannot stop to sell them cupcakes.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

For example, the character "Treemonisha" receives music lessons paid for by her mother who cleans people's houses.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

Her real self was not Eartha Kitt but Eartha Mae, a child given away by her mother.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

Her mother,played by Sharmila Tagore, recognizes that they have to let their daughter lead her own life.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

Her mother had been a dancer. While Clare was a girl, her parents ended their marriage.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

As a child Lucille would sit on her mother's lap and listen as she read poetry.

VOA: special.2010.04.18