"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 Topic(s): Mom More From Charlize Theron "My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence." "I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to." "Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over." More In Mom "I spend a lot of time at my son’s school and I really wanted to do a movie that the kids could see. The good thing about being my age and not having to be the ingenue anymore is that I get to be a mom. I get to have kids in my movies."― Virginia Madsen "The ‘believe’ tattoo is because my mom always told me to believe."― Ashley Tisdale "My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well."― Larry Elder