Angela Rayner Quotes

I never heard 'I love you' as a child. I never felt pretty or cared for.

I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.

People are surprised by the poverty and think that I wasn't cared for. But that wasn't the case - I was deeply loved.

I never got hugged as child.

I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.

I started running away when I was five years old. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized what I really wanted was somebody to come after me when I was running away.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.

I remember being a kid and praying in the hell of my house to have somebody love me and somebody that I could love.

Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.

I don't want to make a cheap analysis, but when you have, like I did, a father incapable of showing emotion, who spends his life telling you that no one will love you if you aren't perfect, it leaves scars.

When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.

I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.

I grew up on Section 8 housing, food stamps, welfare, and dealing with social services. I never had a Christmas. I never had a birthday.

If you have parents who can't show you love, a kid can grow up to look arrogant. Because they need to create a fake self. Or they think they're more powerful than they really are.

I felt abandoned at a young age. That's where most of my anger came from, I guess.

I suspect I wasn't loved enough as a child.

My pops passed when I was little. I didn't have a dad around to tell me certain things. I didn't have my biological mother.

When I was about eight, my mom started disappearing for days at a time, probably with one of the guys she was dating. There would be no food.

If you grew up in a house where you weren't loved, you didn't know there was an alternative.

It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child, while not being loved as a child is loved, but merely being kept alive against one's will.

I was in diapers when my parents left me with the babysitter to participate in an armored car robbery. They never came home.