Wanda Sykes Quotes

Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.

My mother-in-law must be the probation officer I got for the crime I committed of marrying my husband.

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.

Who hasn't had an argument with their mother-in-law?

I don't think you have to live in the fantasy world of Westeros to have problems with your mother-in-law.

There's innate competition, I think, between mothers and daughters - mine no more so than anyone else.

Then, there's the modern mother-in-law. In her mid 40s, she is the compact car of her breed: efficient, trim, attractive and in harmony with her times. She's pretty stiff competition for the plain young matron who's overweight and under-financed. If there is going to be friction in this relationship, it could start from envy and resentment in the younger woman. But Father Time is on her side, even if Mother Nature played her a dirty trick

I suppose, mother-in-laws are frightening figures. Especially, more so for mother-in-laws to be.

Controlling mothers do not pass the baton to their son's new wife.

[On a strained relationship between a tennis champion and her mother:] There comes a time when it's probably not cool for your mom to be your best friend.

Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.

They (mothers-in-law) never leave when they say they will. When my mother-in-law visits, the mice throw themselves at the cat, begging to be eaten.

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for eighteen months-I don't like to interrupt her.

How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.

I think the father-son dynamic is interesting. I don't have a male friend who hasn't had some kind of conflict with their dad, and I don't have a male friend who hasn't had some kind of conflict with their son.

My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.

What daughter thinks of her parents in flagrante delicto? Yet, my mother, even after years with him, dropped hints such as, 'You know, your father enjoys his matinees.' I never even saw them go to the movies together. What could she mean? All those afternoons, I thought she was upstairs listening to La Traviata, and those high notes apparently were not coming from the radio.

It can be the best of relationships and the worst of relationships - often at the same time. The bond between a mother and daughter is one of the strongest, but it's also among the most complicated.

When we got married, the first thing my wife did was put everything under both names - hers and her mother's.

My mother won't admit it, but I've always been a disappointment to her. Deep down inside, she'll never forgive herself for giving birth to a daughter who refuses to launder aluminium foil and use it over again.

There is scarcely room for doubt that something in the psychological relation of a mother-in-law to a son-in-law breeds hostility between them and makes it hard for them to live together. But the fact that in civilized societies mothers-in-law are such a favourite subject for jokes seems to me to suggest that the emotional relation involved includes sharply contrasted components. I believe, that is, that this relation is in fact an 'ambivalent' one, composed of conflicting affectionate and hostile impulses.

Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.

Mothers-in-law do not make good house pets. Once I had the most wonderful dream -- I dreamed that mothers-in-law cost money and I couldn't afford one.