Mum says that, since I was a tiny baby, I've had the most strong-willed and stubborn personality known to man. Although that was a real pain for her, she admired my resolve.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life.
My mum is a lovely woman, so strong but so kind and compassionate. She brought us up to be proud, loving and forgiving.
My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn't want me to be.
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 can certainly be rough around the edges at times, but she also taught me to have compassion for people who have been wronged. She taught me to empathize with those who have made mistakes.
My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.
My mother was a passionate, complicated, sometimes fierce woman.
I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.
I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.
I've had a very supportive mother my entire life, so I've had strong women around me.
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