Abi Morgan Quotes

My family's messed up, for real.

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.

My mother wasn't any better than my father.

Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.

I don't know that anyone comes from a truly functional family.

I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.

Every family is dysfunctional, whether you want to admit it or not.

Everybody has some dysfunction in their families.

Families just have so many secrets and dysfunctions.

Everybody has a dysfunctional family.

Family breakdown is blighting the lives of far too many children.

I grew up in a little bit of a broken home.

Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. It was pretty, pretty dysfunctional, and whose isn't?

I grew up in what was not so much a familyas a genetic disaster.

Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?

I have sister issues and parent issues and all sorts of things.

Of course, screwed up families are not the exclusive province of the famous. Still, most families get to screw up in private.

Any person who says their family is perfectly functional is lying.

The Crosby family is sort of legendary for all of its traumas and familial problems, even though it has this appearance of being this perfect world. It had quite a dark side to it.

When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.

I'm working on my relationship with my mother and father, but my upbringing has been very destructive.

I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.

I can barely recall a single holiday when my father didn't make a scene or create some kind of chaos. We were always walking on eggshells.

My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.

My home and my upbringing and just the problems in my family within my extended family were such that it truly was a mix of the good, bad, and the ugly.