SheWired is celebrating Mother’s Day with a salute to the fairest matriarchs of TV land. From sitcom darlings of The Cosby Show to high drama Mamas of Weeds, L Word, and The Good Wife, all these mothers, good and bad, have one thing in common: they’re totally hot.
Check out the most crush-worthy TV moms of all time, (in no particular order) according to SheWired’s expert team of lesbian fangirls.

Mary Louise Parker, Nancy Botwin on Weeds


Phylicia Rashad, Claire Huxtable on The Cosby Show


Meredith Baxter, Elyse Keaton on Family Ties

Shirley Jones, Shirley Renfrew Partridge on The Partridge Family

Connie Britton, Tami Taylor on Friday Night Lights
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Elizabeth Montgomery, Samantha Stephens on Bewitched

Sofia Vergara, Gloria Delgado-Pritchett on Modern Family

Julie Benz, Stephanie Powell on No Ordinary Family

Eva Longoria, Gabrielle Solis on Desperate Housewives
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Lauren Graham, Lorelai Gilmore on Gilmore Girls

Judith Light, Angela Bower on Who’s The Boss

Portia de Ross, Lindsay Bluth Funke on Arrested Development

Holly Marie Combs, Ella Montgomery on Pretty Little Liars

Molly Ringwald, Anne Juergens on The Secret Life of The American Teenager
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Maeve Quinlan, Paula Carlin on South of Nowhere

Bess Armstrong, Patty Chase on My So Called Life

Sara Ramirez and Jessica Capshaw, Dr.’s Callie Torres and Arizona Robbins on Grey’s Anatomy
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Idina Menzel, Rachel Berry’s Bio-mom, Shelby Corcoran on Glee

Betty Rubble, The Flinstones

Jennifer Saunders, Edina Monsoon on Absolutely Fabulous

Jennifer Beals, Laurel Holloman, Pam Grier, Rachel Shelley, Cybill Shepherd, and Holland Taylor, on The L Word
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Diahann Carroll, Julia Baker on Julia

Julianna Marguiles, Alicia Florrick on The Good Wife
Katey Sagal, Peggy Bundy on Married With Children

Rachel Griffiths, Sarah Walker on Brothers and Sisters
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