I'm used to having strong women around me. My mother was. My wife is. I like their strong mentality.
The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.
I think my mom is kind of this way, too. We're just such strong women. My mom's been through so much, so I think that's where I got it from.
Our family was like no one else's. My schoolfriends had fathers and grandfathers and uncles who did things, but in my family, women had been the doers.
I grew up in a house of forthright women.
Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.
I was raised by women.
I am the ultimate Jewish mother.
My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.
I grew up in a family of strong independent women.
My wife loves elephants and compares me to a big bull elephant.
The Disney animators' rules on adult females: mothers are perfect but imperiled; stepmothers are wicked and occasionally homicidal; godmothers are sweet things with magical powers.
