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This year, Mother’s Day falls on Sunday, May 10. Often she’s our rock and solid foundation for getting through tough times. And why shouldn’t she be? We’re sharing a collection of solid gems of advice offered by some of our favorite TV moms.
“From now on if we have any backstabbing to do, we're going to do it the way we have always done it, face to face.”
Thelma “Mama” Harper (Mama’s Family)
“All families are embarrassing, and if they’re not embarrassing, they’re dead.”
Kitty Forman (That ’70s Show)
“If you’re going to throw your life away, he’d better have a motorcycle.”
Lorelai Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)
“You want poetry, you listen to Neil Diamond. You want good advice, you listen to your mother.”
Sophia Petrillo (Golden Girls)
“If you can raise three kids who can knock out and hog-tie a perfect stranger, you must be doing something right.”
Marge Simpson (The Simpsons)
“Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.”
Violet Crawley, (Downton Abbey)