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This paper discusses narrative reconstructions of the mother figure, based on an interview with three generations of women. The first group, or first generation, was born in the decades of 1920/1930. The second group is formed by women born in the decades of 1940/1950. The third group is composed of women born in the 1960s and 1970s. It should be noted that the interviews were conducted with childless women, so the analysis focused on the figures of the interviewees' mothers. The debate is theoretically based on the discussions from gender studies, as well as on reflections about the re-significance of women's memory. Through the analysis of the interviews, it was possible to verify different idealizations about motherhood, which reflected the female memories about their own mothers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]