I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that.
As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup.
Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.
Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.
The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me - my mother's side of the family have awful legs.
My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.
You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.
My mother is a tall woman - as is everyone in my family. At her prime, she stood 5 feet 9 inches, which is quite unusual for a woman born in 1922.
You know, my family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.
In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her.
There was never any pressure on me to go into the business, but I was always aware of it. I'd go on the set with my father and he and my mother would always be singing.
Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.
My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool foundation.
I don't know if there's any change more significant that a human being can make than that of a woman becoming a mother. There's no change more dramatic.
Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists.
My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home.
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.
