I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York.
I've always had so much admiration for my mom. She's so inspiring as a woman and as an artist.
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.
I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.
Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman.
I may not have got the Nobel Prize, but I've won countless other awards, including 'Most Inspirational Living Woman Scientist.'
I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.
I feel that I've got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it's so important.
She was an extraordinary woman, and I went to bed that night feeling like I was perhaps more than ordinary myself. This was the effect she had on me.
My mom was very much alpha. I admired her because she was the working mom on the go. She's such a boss. She's an OG, as they say.
My greatest inspiration... is my mum, who had a baby at the age of 42 and is still so fit, independent and beautiful.
I hadn't made that movie before and when I ever met the real Joy Mangano, which happened because De Niro insisted we meet her and her father, that's what she felt like to us. She impressed us with her quiet, serene authority with herself.
