Welcome to our collection of Single Mom Quotes, a dedicated space where we celebrate the strength, resilience, and unwavering love of single mothers around the world. Being a single mom can be one of life’s most challenging yet rewarding journeys. These inspirational and heartwarming quotes are here to uplift and empower single mothers, reminding them of the incredible job they do every day. Whether you’re a single mom yourself, know someone who is, or simply want to offer support and encouragement, you’ve come to the right place. Below, you’ll find a curated selection of quotes that capture the essence of single motherhood. Feel free to copy them, add them to images, or enhance them with stylish fonts to create meaningful visuals that resonate with you.
Now, let’s explore these powerful Single Mom Quotes and celebrate the remarkable individuals who navigate the world of parenting with strength and grace.
I grew up in a bit of a feminist fantasy with a single mom. I was totally shielded, in a way, from an idea that I couldn’t do something. Patty Jenkins
For some students, school is the only place where they get a hot meal and a warm hug. Teachers are sometimes the only ones who tell our children they can go from an Indian reservation to the Ivy League, from the home of a struggling single mom to the White House. Denise Juneau
I didn’t have a lot of exposure to films as a kid, and I never went to the cinema. I had a single mom who just planted me in front of the television. But while growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world. Roger Ross Williams
I am a single mom of three girls, and I’m getting through that. If I can get through that, I can direct a whole season of television that I star in. Pamela Adlon
As an actress, I have put myself out there as an independent black woman, a single mom, a go-getter, a hustler who isn’t afraid to survive. LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
My mom did not have money. She was a single mom, on and off in periods between marriages. My husband, however, grew up on a wonderful farm in Tuscany, in Florence, and his family was so entertaining in terms of growing their own food and using the fruit of their land. We have very, very different experiences. Debi Mazar
The violin has always been important for me. My mom was a single mom and we moved around a lot, and so the violin was always the one constant I had. I always feel better when I had my violin. Playing it is cathartic. Amanda Shires
I was raised by a single mom. I spent most of my time in daycare. Jon Hamm
From the moment this baby came into our home, those two dogs have never been more in love. It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever witnessed. People keep saying, ‘Oh, you’re a single mom.’ I’m like, ‘Actually, I’m not. I’ve got two boys helping.’ Charlize Theron
I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day. Wendy Davis
My cousin in Louisiana started a small company with a little savings, renovating houses. A single mom, she saved enough to buy a home and provide child care for her son. When the economy went belly up, so did her company. She was forced to sell her home and move in with her parents. Campbell Brown
I grew up a poor kid to a single mom, so as an African-American actor I have a responsibility to hold the mirror up and reflect our stories. I’m living the dream and also escaped the inevitable. Tony Todd
I just grew up a poor black kid in Alabama with a single mom and two brothers. Charles Barkley
My mom has always been a huge inspiration. She was a single mom raising two kids in New York. Now that is full-on all the time. Kim Raver
Pressure is the single mom who is trying to scuffle and pay her rent. We get paid a lot of money to play a game. Don’t get me wrong: there are challenges. But to call it pressure is almost an insult to regular people. Damian Lillard
Being a single mom, I fought my way through living in poverty, feeling like I wasn’t ever enough, feeling an annoying tug that we as a family possibly weren’t complete. Stephanie Land
I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents. Anthony Foxx
My mom is the most amazing woman ever. She grew up a single mom raising five kids, and she’s always told me to follow my dreams. One thing I’ve learned about her is she sacrificed her whole life for me to focus on my dream, and I cannot wait to do that for my kids. RaeLynn
I’m raised by a single mom and didn’t have pops around for the most part of my life. And she, by any means necessary, gave me the best opportunities that she knew how to give me. Shemar Moore
I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls. Connie Stevens
As a single mom, I barely had time to get to know and date one person. Stephanie Land
I love being a single mom. But it’s definitely different when you’re dating. Brooke Burns
Many of my single mom friends and I had a fear of appearing poor, especially when we bought groceries with food stamps, or used WIC checks for milk. Stephanie Land
My mother’s a Peruvian Indian from Lima who raised me and my four brothers and sisters as a single mom. Benjamin Bratt
I had a pretty rough childhood. I was raised for a few years by my single mom, until she married my stepdad a little later. Marisol Nichols
I’m an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other. Padma Lakshmi
My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasn’t supposed to, and I tried to keep her from finding out about it. I did a pretty good job of that. Jason Aldean
I’m not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress. Chrissie Hynde
I was a single mom by choice at 37, and if my love life hadn’t quite panned out, most everything else had. I was a classic ‘amazing girl’ – driven, social, and relentlessly well-rounded – reveling in the fruits of post-Title IX America: an all-metro athlete in high school, Rhodes Scholar at 24, best-selling author by 27. Rachel Simmons
Let’s face it – being a nurse, a single mom of eight kids, I would not be able to provide for them in any way shape or form. Kate Gosselin
My grandmother – my inspiration – was a single mom with nine kids, and she helped raise me. Jessica McDonald
For me, as a feminist, as somebody who wants to lift up women – because I do; I come from a single mom who raised three boys on her own – I feel like, you close the door on women, you close the door on humanity. Theodore Melfi
I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult. Valerie Jarrett
My mom is a painter and an artist. She would play music, and she always had very good taste in music, fashion, and art. She was also a young single mom, so I think she had really good style; she was really free… just really inspiring in her own way and allowed me to find the direction I wanted to take in my life. Ruby Rose
My mother was a single mom whose days were spent as a customer service rep at Con Edison in downtown Brooklyn. Jacqueline Woodson
How did I feel as a guy who was making a movie about a single mom who’s a crackhead? That – I was scared. I mean, it was scary. But part of that’s because it was so personal and real to me. Barry Jenkins
The strength of my mother is something I didn’t pay attention to for so long. Here she was, this single mom, who was part of the Great Migration, who was part of a Jim Crow south, who said, ‘I’m getting my kids out of here. I’m creating opportunities for these young people by any means necessary.’ Jacqueline Woodson
This is the place where anybody – like an African American kid raised by a single mom – can be president. Jennifer Granholm
I watched a ton of TV because I was raised by a single mom and spent a lot of time with my grandmother. Like most grandparents do, she would spend hours and hours in front of the TV box. Lena Waithe
I didn’t get to train because I was raised by a single mom. There were three of us and it was just too expensive to pay for me to do martial arts practice. Sharice Davids
For me, just being how old I am, I know I don’t want to be a single mom. I really would rather make it a two-person job. But I’ve also come to terms with not being a mother at all. I’m actually really good with either direction that my life can take as being a valid experience. Lisa Edelstein
I didn’t plan on being a single mom, but you have to deal with the cards you are dealt the best way you can. Tichina Arnold
Honestly, ‘Parenthood’ was not what I planned. I didn’t plan to do another drama. I didn’t plan to play a single mom. I didn’t plan, even, to do an ensemble show. But I hadn’t found anything I liked as much. I just connected to the show. Lauren Graham
You know, I don’t think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn’t wish for that, but it happened. Charlize Theron
I’ve never had siblings, I didn’t grow up in a big family; it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved. Emmy Rossum
My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong. Regina King
Growing up in Orangeburg, I didn’t know that I lived in the ‘corridor of shame.’ I was the son of a single mom who learned to read from comic books. My grandparents helped raise me. Jaime Harrison
If someone has money, they can put their child in a private school, paying tens of thousands of dollars for tuition. But their child’s needs are met. What is lacking is options for that single mom with three kids, or just that intact family but lower income. Bill Cassidy
A lot of times when people become successful, people don’t really understand what they had to do or the sacrifices they made to do that, or they assume that they had money. This is coming from, like, a kid who was broke and lived with roaches and a single mom in Dorchester. Clinton Sparks
There is perhaps no more rewarding romance heroine than she who is not expected to find love. The archetype comes in many disguises – the wallflower, the spinster, the governess, the single mom – but always with one sad claim: Love is not in her cards. Sarah MacLean
I kept working during my campaign because I needed to feed my family. As a single mom of three kids, I have a lot of child care that I needed to juggle, and I was a first-time candidate. Katie Porter
I am a single mom and I’m the breadwinner and I have to work and I have to do these things and that’s just the way it is. I don’t think my son even knows any different. Charisma Carpenter
I went to elementary school in L.A. I was born in L.A. My mother was from Redondo Beach. My father was French. He died six months before I was born, so my mother went home. I was born there. Not the childhood that most people think. Middle-class, raised by my mother. Single mom. Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
Hillary Clinton famously talked about how raising a child takes a village. Except our society isn’t set up that way. We’re organized in nuclear units, and a single mom can ask her friends only so many times for help picking up the kids. Katharine Weymouth
I grew up in the city of Detroit, where a lot of people didn’t have work opportunities, but they were good, hard-working people, including I had a single mom who took care of me and my brother. Stacy Brown-Philpot
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. will.i.am
I was a kid growing up in Houston, didn’t have a lot – three younger brothers, a single mom. It was tough. DeAndre Jordan
Congress wasn’t built for members like me. For those of us who have young children, which is a minority, there’s definitely the built-in assumption of a two-parent model… There is no template for how to do this in my situation as a single mom. Katie Porter
I’m an only child raised by a single mom. She’s always been supportive of what I wanted to do. Jessica Parker Kennedy
I was one of six children raised by a single mom who cleaned houses, not always knowing if we would come home to an eviction notice on the front door or food on the table. So I also understand the struggles of paying the rent, finding affordable child care, and having enough in the bank to make it to the end of the week. Eric Adams
In ‘Batman Beyond,’ Terry McGinnis has the responsibility of protecting Gotham City, as well as maintaining a home and social life. He’s also got a single mom and a pesky younger brother, which young kids will relate to. Paul Dini
I grew up with an Italian family in an era when a woman’s path was laid out for her: You got married and had children. Simple, right? Then I got to a point around the age of 30 when I had three little children and was a single mom, and I realized life was not so simple. Joy Mangano
My mother was a single mom, and she was a claims adjuster at an insurance company. She actually dropped out of school – she was going to become a registered nurse – because she had to take care of me and my brother. Stacy Brown-Philpot
I am at the table. I am first generation. I am Irish-Puerto Rican. I am a single mom. Kimberly Guilfoyle
As a single mom, I want to say that having a child does not have to be a setback. You can still reach your dreams and teach your kids to reach for their dreams. Denise Bidot
Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad. Angelina Jolie
I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive – like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable – there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel. Beth Ditto
I’m comfortable around girls because I grew up with two sisters and a single mom. I feel very lucky for all they have taught me. They tell me to be myself, have fun, and focus on eye expressions. Anwar Hadid
I grew up with a single mom, two brothers, and a sister, and after school, we would play outside then go home for dinner and play videogames together. It’s something I enjoy doing, and it’s also cheap entertainment compared to a movie or paying for cable. You pay $50 one time for a game, and you can play it as many times as you want. Demetrious Johnson
I was always with a single mom, and we never had schedules or anything. We were just Bohemian, us against the world, which was kind of great, but it certainly didn’t breed security. I’ve gotten hyper-sensitive to schedules and bath time and eating at the dinner table. We don’t just ‘Bohemian’ go out at nine o’clock and go get Chinese food. Brooke Shields
I was actually born and raised in Puerto Rico. I was born to a single mom. She was a wonderful woman, and she taught me to believe in myself, to work hard, play by the rules. She wanted me to get a good education, and she just told me that the best thing I could do is just study hard. Raul Labrador
I was growing up with a single mom who’d be at work when I came home from school. So I’d just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models. Bailey Chase
I’m one of three boys raised by a single mom in a military beach town in the South. Jason Winston George
It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard. Melissa Etheridge
Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the ’70s, Father’s Day to me was always a very uncomfortable time. At school, we would make Father’s Day cards for our dads, and I usually mailed one to my dad, and he hardly ever responded. Art Alexakis
I thought running for Congress paled in comparison to being a parent and being a mom – especially a single mom of three kids. Katie Porter
Single parents do not have the luxury of purchasing an abundance of healthy foods for their kids to try. I know this. As a single mom, I’ve been there. Stephanie Land
I hope telling the story of how I went from being a single mom to serving in the Texas State Senate to running for governor will remind others that with the right leadership in government, where you start has nothing to do with how far you go. Wendy Davis
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. Tom Vilsack
My mom and I have always been very close since she did raise me as, like, a single mom. My friends and everyone I know are like, ‘Wow, you guys really have a really good relationship.’ She’s with me a lot of the time, so people find that kind of shocking. Tiffany Trump
I’m not sure anyone – and I could be wrong in this – grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom. Bridget Moynahan
If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that’s broken apart, I think that’s probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area. Bridget Moynahan
I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom. Eliza Dushku
I didn’t even know how much of a feminist I was, and I realized, ‘Oh my God, I was raised by a single mom who had to raise six kids. I have three sisters. Larry, you’ve been a feminist your whole life, and you really didn’t know it until you’ve been presented with these issues.’ Larry Wilmore
My mom was a single mom and I’m an only child, so growing up it was really just me and her against the world. Denise Bidot
I was a single mom. Allison Anders
If you want to stand with me as a single mom – and I know so many of my friends and colleagues do – please don’t appropriate my burden as a way to validate your own. To suggest that you are single-parenting when you are simply solo for the weekend devalues what real single mothers do. Rachel Simmons
I was sort of getting used to being a single mom, maybe a little too used to it. Domino Kirke
Halloween was definitely the biggest holiday when I was a kid. We started making our Halloween costumes in August. Me and my mom. My mom was a single mom; it was just her and I. Jason Blum