I have a characteristic since my childhood. I don’t like living together with my mother, sister, or friends at my home. I have always preferred to be alone and independent and lived according to that.
Mother
I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was broken, and she'd preserve it.
I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother’s imagination. She always saw beauty in what was broken, and she’d preserve it.
We are born of love; Love is our mother.
We are born of love; Love is our mother.
Rumi
My mother was a very positive thinker; she was always active, always doing something good.
My mother was a very positive thinker; she was always active, always doing something good.
Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongue, your motherland, your mother's values – these things can qualify or disqualify you from attaining myriad American dreams: love, fluency, citizenship, legitimacy, acceptance, success, freedom.
Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person’s worth. Your mother tongue, your motherland, your mother’s values – these things can qualify or disqualify you from attaining myriad American dreams: love, fluency, citizenship, legitimacy, acceptance, success, freedom.
My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.
My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.
If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems – like a beauty therapist!
If I weren’t performing, I’d be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone’s problems – like a beauty therapist!
My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.
My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn’t feel alone.
A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.
When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I’d be alone a lot. Basically we all are.
My sister was the glamourous one and her movies portrayed her beauty and glamour. As a person, she has enormous patience and has single-handedly supported my mother and my siblings. I have always admired her loyalty to the family.
My sister was the glamourous one and her movies portrayed her beauty and glamour. As a person, she has enormous patience and has single-handedly supported my mother and my siblings. I have always admired her loyalty to the family.
I grew up hearing stories about my grandmother – my mother's mother – who used to go to villages in India in her little VW bug. My grandmother would take a bullhorn and make sure women in these villages knew how to access birth control.
I grew up hearing stories about my grandmother – my mother’s mother – who used to go to villages in India in her little VW bug. My grandmother would take a bullhorn and make sure women in these villages knew how to access birth control.
You do stand alone sometimes. But my mother stood by me through all this.
You do stand alone sometimes. But my mother stood by me through all this.
All the women close to me – my mother, sister, wife and friends – are strong and independent.
All the women close to me – my mother, sister, wife and friends – are strong and independent.