Anne Sexton Quotes

For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family.

I remember the bad times as a succession of painful emotional snapshots: Me walking into the library at 24 Sussex, seeing my mother in tears, and hearing her talk about leaving while my father stood facing her, stern and ashen.

I just broke up all the furniture in the house. My mother had to get rid of me. So she put me in dance class.

My parents divorced when I was 12, and leading up to that it was... not without turbulence.

You know . . . a lot of kids at school hate their parents. Some of them got hit. And some of them got caught in the middle of wrong lives. Some of them were trophies for their parents to show the neighbors like ribbons or gold stars. And some of them just wanted to drink in peace.

Turner let his face fell into his hands. "I'm never going to touch her again", he moaned. "He's never going to touch me again!" they heard Miranda roar."Well,it doesn't look like you'll have much argument from your wife on that point", Olivia chirped.

Everybody is agreeing so tersely. I just had a flashback to the month before my parents finally admitted they were getting a divorce.

Fights with my father were really quite brutal. I would not live his vision. I would not become who he wanted me to be. Everything I did was criticized. I would spend three months drawing something and show him, and he would look up from his paper and just look back down. I got no approval from him for anything I did that was creative.

I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.

My parents split up, and a lot of things going on in the outside world made me want to immerse myself in an alternative world.

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.

We're divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us.

My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg.

Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.

I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now. You have to go through this to understand.

People feel very ashamed to admit that they have in-law problems. They think it's something petty. But it's not petty at all. It hits deep emotions.

Raining Gold' is about feeling trapped in a broken dynamic. Feeling so worn out and turned upside down from manipulation can make you feel like you're in a daze.

My family - my mother and father had gone through such a hard time that by the time I graduated from sixth grade, they were separated.

I grew up in a broken home.

I built up so much hatred for my parents, like so much anger for the life they had given me.

Continuing to expose the children to my and Adrienne's dysfunctional and volatile relationship is causing harm to the children.

Who among us is not thinking about divorce, except for a few tiny-minded stick-in-the-muds who don't count?

Divorce is simply modern society's version of medieval torture. Except it lasts longer and leaves deeper scars. A divorce releases the most primitive emotions; the ugliest, raw feelings. Emotionally wounded people do their best to inflict pain upon the other party, but rather than using claws they use divorce lawyers.

I was abused my family was the "brady bunch