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My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

I always wanted to be a mom.

I've always wanted to be a mom because I want to give a kid all of the magical gifts my mom gave to me, such as love and friendship. She and I had this incredible connection that was so unbelievable.

And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

I just ultimately wanted to be a mother. I love children.

I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited, not because I am such a great mom, but for me.

One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.

My mother helped me to be who I am: to have strength and not to let people run all over me and yet to be humble; to realise that all of this that I have today could be gone.

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