Jon Hamm Quotes

Coming from a single parent household, I witnessed firsthand the strength and courage of the single mother. I always had my father in my life but my household was run by my mother and my grandmother. As a result, I have always had the utmost respect for women and have chosen to strongly convey that in my music.

I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life. I've spent a life loving women, and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.

I was raised primarily by women. I had a mother who almost killed herself to survive, I had a sister who was eight years older who was like a second mother, and my mother had two sisters. In the environment I grew up in, I heard a lot of female perspectives.

I was raised by a strong single mother.

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

I grew up surrounded by strong women, and that was a very strong influence.

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 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.

Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.

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've had some very strong female role models, so I think that's an important thing.

I grew up around a lot of feminine energy.

I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.

I grew up with a single mother who brought us up. I always look back at my career, and everything that has happened to me is because of the support of women. My mother, my sister, Michelle Obama, Kate Middleton - all these women have believed in my designs and worn them and given me a platform to increase my visibility.

My home life now is mostly women. They are better than us. They make me better.

I was raised by women. Now I'm raising women. I was always better around girls. I live in an all-female household. I even have two female dogs... It's funny how that turned out.

Growing up with strong female role models is always inspiring, and growing up, that was something I aspired to play.

I grew up in a family of strong independent women.

While growing up, I have had women around me, be it my mother or aunt, who have individually shown me how to be strong.

I was raised by strong women, and the role models I had in music and cinema were strong, too - liberated and provocative.

I've been surrounded by strong, hardworking women like my mother all my life.

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.