Tana Mongeau Quotes

I don't see how you could get used to people screaming in your face, and anyone who says different is lying.

As a parent, you must give your opinion. And if that causes a breach, then it causes a breach.

When I was 12, my feet were so small, I wore my sisters' glitter shoes. My dad would whoop me: 'You're not going to school now, you'll embarrass us!'

'Awkward' is a ubiquitous teen word to denote socially unsanctioned behavior. It usually implies first- or secondhand embarrassment when you or a friend step outside the rules. Awkward doesn't sound overtly judgmental or negative; it's deliberately vague.

My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment.

My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.

I'll never forget the time my mother showed up with her best friend and two daughters, and all four of us dressed up in matching clothes, shoes and hats to go pick up my brother from school. I thought it was a fun thing to do, but we stepped outside my brother's school and he was mortified!

If you are going through something with one of your parents, you know that there is this feeling inside you constantly that something is wrong. Even if you want to pretend that it doesn't matter to you or you don't care, the truth of the matter is that you do, because they are your parents and you love them.

My father was this famous heart surgeon, a wonderful man... but there was something about me that drove him crazy.

My dad used to ignore me when I was a kid. He couldn't stand my voice, so he just used to ignore me, and then he'd impersonate me.

Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.

I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now. He was very strict.

My father was my trainer, my teacher. He was closer to my sister in the sense that she adored him and he adored her. He was more like my pal. Because of the 13-year gap, I think by the time I came along, it wasn't a big deal. I wasn't spoilt or cherished, I was just put to work.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

I'm blessed with three children who actually aren't terribly impressed with pandering to my ego, and one of my children has a bit of a problem with the sex scenes because when she reads the stuff, she hears my voice in her head, and apparently reading a sex scene written by your mother with her describing it is rather off-putting!

My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities.

They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press.

Till I was 13, I thought my name was 'Shut Up.'

What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.

My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.

There will be no 'Mommie Dearest' in the lives of my children, and no books like the one the Crosby boy wrote about Bing, or Bette Davis's daughter has written. My children love me very much, and they are loved.

At times I thought guys were going to pop me right there in Town Hall …. The level of incivility is more than I'm willing to put up with. I like to ski … drink a beer, and not have someone come up to me and complain.