interview questions about my mother
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1. What’s one of your earliest memories?
2. What’s the most trouble you’ve ever gotten in?
3. What was your relationship with your own parents like?
4. What’s something you always wanted to do but didn’t ― and why didn’t you?
5. Was there something your parents did when you were a kid that you swore you’d never do yourself?
6. How many serious relationships were you in before you settled down (if you did)? What were they like?
7. What was your hardest breakup like?
8. Growing up, what did you think you wanted to do for a living?
9. How have your notions of what it means to be a woman changed over your lifetime?
10. (If she worked): What was it like being a working mom at that time? Would you do it all over again? What would you change?
11. (If she didn’t work): What was it like being a stay-at-home mom at that time? Would you do it all over again? What would you change?