Susan Minot Quotes

The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship.

The family unit is very interesting because these are people that you're supposed to be the closest to in your life, and yet that's where you find the greatest distances between people as well - especially between parents and kids.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all.

I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.

Families are the deepest, most screwed up relationships that we have.

It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.

In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.

I don't know any woman who has a simple relationship with their mother or with their daughter.

Each child should try to see in his parents the children they previously were. Each parent should try to see in his child the adult he seems to be becoming.

I have my mother. I love her very much, but on many issues, we will never find a common language, because she simply doesn't understand many things.

There's no one person I can talk to and try and be as him - but the one person I want to is my dad.

Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don't have that. I have parents who I care about what they think.

I say to my mother all the time, 'You're the child.' And she says, 'Yeah, you're the mother.' I've been that way with her since I was 11.

My mother and I always had full adult communication.

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.

I'm exceptionally open with my own parents, and they're exceptionally open with me.

The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

I just wish I could understand my father.

In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children.

Parents always stay older than you, but sibling sort of become adults together, and that complicates that relationship, I think.

I mostly want to be friends with my children.

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.