What I love most about Mother's Day is that I am acknowledged and honored for being a mother.

My children are still young, but I try to talk to them about giving back and how important it is, just to look at the world, be invested in things, to be passionate about things, to have a dream.

Doing designs on a loom takes a lot of talent and experience, and, trust me, I won't be able to do that.

When countries commit to protecting vulnerable lives, they should receive support from those who can provide it in order to make their programs a success.

What I love most about Mother's Day is that I am acknowledged and honored for being a mother.

When a woman has her first child in places like Africa, they're really young. They can be 12, 13,14, so their frames are really small, and they're usually malnourished.

When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.