Aimee Bender Quotes

My family is probably too involved in my life because they are my best friends, but I love that.

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

I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because I was always using her as my mother, if you know what I mean.

Mothers, take time to be a real friend to your children. Listen to your children, really listen. Talk with them, laugh and joke with them, sing with them, cry with them, hug them, honestly praise them. Yes, regularly spend unused one-on-one time with each child. Be a real friend to your children.

We are always children to our mothers.

I've experienced love and ambition and desire in my life, but never in the same way as in a family.

I've got really good friends and family. My parents, after 30 years, are still incredibly in love, still make each other laugh, which is a beautiful thing to see. And my brother and his fiance are completely happy, so if I feel a bit lonely, I just go and sit with them and feel their love.

Connecting with my daughter is the most important thing in my life - the priority. I want to be a man who shows up for her. I want to have such a big influence on her, so that she knows she can call me about anything, which she does.

I speak with my father about everything in my life.

I mostly want to be friends with my children.

It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.

I talked about my family, my family's so important.

Between children and parents, there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.

I could share an hour of warm camaraderie with Dad, then once I'd walked out the door, get the uncanny feeling I'd disappeared into the wings of his mind's stage, like a character no longer necessary to the ongoing story line.

That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children.

The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.

My family's the most important thing in my life.

'Queen Sugar' is a drama about family. It's something that allows us to be ourselves and see the ways that we interact with our own families.

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.

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.

I love my family. We have a very rich, complicated relationship.

It's no secret that I have, at best, a strained and awkward relationship with my dad. The Wasserman family - my mom, my sister, Lew and Edie - raised me. They are the people I define as my family.

Maybe family is an eternal subject for me.

My mom lives with me. She lives with me, yeah. I'm a mommy's boy, you know.

I'm not really emotionally dependant on anybody except my son, my daughter-in-law, and my grandchildren. But a partner... I haven't felt like that for so many years, I don't really remember what it was like.