Douglas Coupland Quotes

One of the things about parents and children is that there is no way that you go through this without there being mutual anger.

Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.

Parents just don't understand.

There's no winning arguments with your parents

Don't keep telling your parents they don't understand you. Believe me it's much worse when they do. There's just a chance, you know - they really might.

My kids are no different than anyone else's - they tend to disagree with everything I say!

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

My parents don't really understand my career. They don't really bring it up that much.

One of the major demographic shares of people who watch 'Girls' are men in their fifties. Fathers watch it, maybe trying to figure out how to keep up with their 20-something daughters.

The generation that comes next is always going to rebel against the generation that came before, and they're always going to be at odds with each other.

My daughters prefer Tears for Fears songs as they're more upbeat and generic. Dad's songs are 'a little too sad' for them, which just means that they're harder to understand.

Vaisey said, "Is it because your parents don't understand you?" Charlie said, "No, it's because our parents understand us very well, and that is why they wanted us to go away.

The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.

I wondered if parents had an easier time with the secrets their children kept than children did with the secrets of their parents. A parent's secrets seemed like some sort of betrayal, where my own just seemed like a fact of life and growing up and away. I was supposed to be independent, but he was supposed to be available. Him having his own life seemed selfish, where me having my own was the right order of things.

For a very great many years, I asked this question: ‘To communicate or not to communicate?’ If one got himself in such thorough trouble by communication, then of course one should stop communicating. But this is not the case. If one gets himself into trouble by communicating, he should further communicate. More communication, not less, is the answer.

When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.

Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.

Flustered, she replied, "You're not my - my - grandmother, or something." "You'd talk about this with your grandmother? I can't possibly imagine discussing my dating life with mine. She's a lovely woman, I suppose. If you like them bald and racist.

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era.

Listen.. to your motor-mouth mother..... Lovely Minato said

When you're inside and you have no control and when you're the 14-year-old version of Frances Farmer, you know, you have reasons to be angry. You have reasons to be angry when your parents, who are very sheltered themselves, make decisions as to what you should experience in your life and what's normal and what's not.

I understand a fury in your words But not your words.

Parents don't know their children at all. No one knows anyone, in fact.

Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!