The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig which my mother took me to see.

I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from.

The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.

My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean the level of hatred that they had and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.

I'm not a good father and they're not children any more the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and because of what the law was they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.

I've stepped more into my womanhood I'm a mother now I'm having a beautiful relationship as a wife and as a friend.

I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison so we already had a deep and loving relationship and remembered our mother at those times.

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.

When a mother quarrels with a daughter she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.

I had a very very difficult relationship with my mother who was supremely self-centred. She was hilariously self-centred. She did not really take interest in anything that didn't immediately affect her.

I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos we understand each other.

My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth be careful and stay positive.

So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015 even if the mothers are positive.

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.

My mother Lillie Specter was an angel and totally uninterested in politics.