I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother....

I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules. I didn't cause my son any pain. But I did bring to my life some of my father, who was very controlling and very remote. I was working a lot. I wasn't there enough.

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Mary Tyler Moore

Maybe mom is my alter ego and the woman I'm able to be when I'm working.

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Mary Tyler Moore

I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.

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Mary Tyler Moore

I feel about my dogs now, and all the dogs I had prior to this, the way I feel about children—they are that important to me. When I have lost a dog I have gone into a mourning period that lasted for months.

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Mary Tyler Moore

My weakness is pizza, any form of carbohydrate. I like junk carbohydrates, I like cheap greasy cheeseburgers, quality french fries.

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Mary Tyler Moore

I still feel as if I weren't ...

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