Marine Le Pen Quotes

I have so much respect for when my parents did. They did not raise me talking about money and I would have disappointed them if I went to China.

Sometimes when you have children they're the opposites of you.

Americans who have parents raised during the Great Depression or World War II understand how drastically things have changed on the home front. My father did not care a whit whether I liked him, and it would have been unthinkable for him to pick up my stuff. There were rules in the house, and they were enforced.

In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.

My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.

My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of.

Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though they may be, should continue to live at home until they were married.

My dad is this typical orthodox, narrow-minded Punjabi man in front of whom you can't even utter the word called 'boyfriend.'

Every person I've ever met always thinks their parents are weird.

My parents really wanted me to have an arranged marriage when I was younger, but I think they have updated a bit with the times.

I was brought up to respect my father and not to love him.

I will get married to a guy of my parents' choice.

Sometimes I act younger than my daughters. But that's when they say, 'Mama, stop it!'

Today, youths say 'Hi and Bye' even to their parents. Instead, they should touch parents' feet as a mark of respect.

Classically, it's the child who looks up at their parents who says, 'This is how the future is going to be,' and it's the parents who don't understand because they're set in their ways. For me, it was the exact opposite.

In Morocco, there is an insistence on authority. Children are not encouraged to speak up in front of their parents. My parents were not like this. I was the kind of girl who could tell her father, 'No, what you are saying is totally untrue, and I don't agree with you.'

Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.

Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!

If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterwards act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your better judgment.

My grandfather was a lot like a white Jewish George Jefferson, and he did not enjoy my work very much.

I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn't. Can't see why.

I adore my family. I don't love their politics. I think they're wonderful parents. They were dreadful at parenting.

Every father and son have conflicts.

I do discuss things with him, but as a father, not a friend.