How strong is your mother's influence to your personality?

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Being the eldest child among 3 daughters, there were so expectations burdened on me, one is to be like my mother who is a strong-willed woman. My mother is a woman of strong personality. Inevitably, she is domineering to me. Her decisions were with me all the time while growing up. From the guys i got related to, to the way i treat other people, they were all molded according to what i had always hear from my mother. I remember her saying that crying is a sign of weakness, that made me hate tears. So, whenever we cry, we never showed it to anybody, not even to any family member. Until i reached adulthood that i learned that crying is not a weakness. My two sisters never expressed fears on any aspect because our mother always tell us that there's nothing to get scared of in this world. She was not so physically showy of her love for us. However, we had a hard time adjusting to the outside world when we were already exposed outside our compound (we live inside a catholic compound). I and my two sisters had a complex that peole have to adjust for us, though we realize it must not be the case. For now, we are already afraid to project weakness in any aspect in our lives. And we are not even allowed to fall inlove, love wholly! For that, it was very hard for me to accept when i had already fallen to someone cause i am afraid it is a weakness as our mother tell me. That is how my mother influence us, her three children. How about you friends, how is your mother?