I've always been a good mother, but I've always been in show business, and I've been on stage, and I don't bake cookies and I don't stay home.
You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really.
We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.
I'm a good mother. I'm a good person.
Once upon a time, if you wanted to talk about the notion of child abandonment, of a mother not being a good mother, that's built into the mother who sends the babes into the woods, and they use the bits of bread or stones to come home again.
For the first five years of Luca's life, I desperately wanted to be a good mother and not to pass on this trauma and darkness that his father and I had experienced, but there's a danger of suffocating your kids, too.