Tana Mongeau Quotes

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.

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

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

I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.

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

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.

I wasn't happy at all as a child. I was very privileged and knew extraordinary people, but I felt very lonely: my mother thought I was extremely difficult and my grandmother was extremely severe.

If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.

I come from a very dysfunctional family, so I was comfortable in misery. So I would create more misery for myself because I didn't know anything else.

When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.

I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.

The real demon in my life is my father.

My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

I have a lot of anger about my childhood - being hard of hearing and my relationship with my father.

There was a lot of brokenness in my family. Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.

I didn't have a good childhood growing up.

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

Unfortunately, some parents simply don't love their children. Probably they don't even love themselves. That may be the heart of their problem. Having parents like this is a terrible burden for any child and can shadow him all through life. It can even destroy him.

I had a very rocky, difficult, emotional childhood with my parents.

All I wanted was for my mom to say, 'I love you, and I'm here for you.' I never got that.

Everybody that writes has their own area of inquiry. And mine has always been kind of, why is it that when life can be so hard and difficult, we compound it by self-sabotage, doing terrible things? That's always been my main area of inquiry, and it does lead you to dark places.