Raheem DeVaughn Quotes

I was raised by a single mother and I've been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I've been surrounded by women.

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.

When you're single, you're very independent. Very independent women raised me. We didn't have a lot of male figures as the head of our household, so I got, and took on, a lot of that strong spirit from the matriarchs in my family.

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

I was raised by a strong single mother.

My family's full of wild women.

It's a matriarchal family, the Carters. A.P. was the original head of the Carter family, but the women were always strong. There were no questions asked in that regard; you had better be strong.

I grew up surrounded by these tough, ballsy, strong women. They were also adoring women, but they were the kind of women who would argue over what kind of pants you were wearing or the color of your nail polish.

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

I find families intriguing, perhaps because I did not grow up in one. I was raised by a feminist, independent, single mother, a divorcee.

What does it mean to a successful woman today? Does it mean you have to be a mother? If you are a mother, does it mean you have to be a mother with a husband? If you don't have a husband, what is the role that the man plays? I think there are a lot of confusing things that we're all really still sorting out.

I grew up among strong women so I know what it's like to be loved and humiliated in a heartbeat.

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

I have lived with extraordinary women, whether it was my grandmother, my mother. My father passed away when I was 16... I was witness to a woman who single handedly brought up the entire family and managed to do everything... She was an extraordinary role model for me.

My mom was a single parent.

It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.

Women are as precious as they are stronger than any man that I have met.

We've always had very strong women in my family.

I've noticed in the Caribbean culture, the women aren't submissive - they're very fiery.

I grew up in a bustling household of women with my mom, granny, and aunts. Seeing all these strong women taking charge of their lives and living it to the fullest was a great inspiration while growing up.

For me, when it started off with Lita she was always my favorite. She can do what the guys can do, and I wanted to be like that when I was younger.

All the women close to me - my mother, sister, wife and friends - are strong and independent.

I come from a single-parent family and my Mum is super liberal.

I'm used to having strong women around me. My mother was. My wife is. I like their strong mentality.