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In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.

And having a strong family, you know we've lost some members of our family and had some setbacks, but I think a good family and kids all those things I thought at one time... you got to be kidding me... Those things are so important they enable you to go on.

I was very focused, driven, rigid, work-oriented. I didn't care about having a family or making a home. I didn't think about kids. It's not that I didn't want those things; I just didn't think about them.

For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.

I was hoping I could become a success to give my mother and my father a better way of living.

One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.

I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.

My entire life changed when I became a mother - my priorities, my understanding, appreciation of life, and my relationship with God.

My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.