I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them.

Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.

I am a single mother - that is the reality.

I'm very close to my mother, but not a single other person in my family.

I grew up as an only child with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif.