How do we get women to stop saying, "I'm just a mother"? Or, "I used to be such and such, but now I'm just a mother"? When Jane Clayson Johnson, former network news correspondent and co-host of the early show attended a ...How do we get women to stop saying, "I'm just a mother"? Or, "I used to be such and such, but now I'm just a mother"? When Jane Clayson Johnson, former network news correspondent and co-host of the early show attended a gathering of nearly fifty lds couples, she was shocked to hear the women in the group describe themselves as "Just a mother." She had not expected latter-day saint women to have the same undervalued view of motherhood as the rest of the world.