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My mother was a very wise and strong person.

My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.

My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.

My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.

I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away all the time. My mother was a big part of bringing up three boys, so I was fully versed in the strength of a powerful woman, and accepted that as the status quo.

Since I was a little girl, I have witnessed the strength and courage that energized my mother, who left every sorrow and pain in the past, who would work unyieldingly to obtain her goals, who was the great warrior from whom I learned all the values that are today fundamental pillars of my every day.

My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn't want me to be.

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.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

I've had a very supportive mother my entire life, so I've had strong women around me.