My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them.

It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.

It's always been my mom and I against the world.

Growing up my whole life my mom was telling me how incredible and special I was and that I was going to change the world. I think it's important for girls to know that they can change the world that they do have an impact.

Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.

God blessed me with two unbelievable parents and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom because she wants to save the world and help the world so I am just like her.

My mom and I used to listen to records read and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.

When I was a little girl rocking my little dolls I remember thinking I would be the world's best mom and so far I've done it.

I have so much respect for my mom and all the women across the world.

My mom Irmelin taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.

The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off too because the kids are with their mom so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

The men who learn endurance are they who call the whole world brother.

When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

I like being a woman even in a man's world. After all men can't wear dresses but we can wear the pants.

If all men knew what others say of them there would not be four friends in the world.

To reform a world to reform a nation no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know that the only solid though a far slower reformation is what each begins and perfects on himself.

The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light but that of Christ.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust straw and feathers.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.