Chely Wright Quotes

I just wish I could understand my father.

I love my mother and hope to one day reconcile with her.

Any relationship, I'm talking about even with your kids, when you got something they can relate to - both of y'all - it helps.

Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they're driving you crazy. As much as they make you mad, interrupt you, annoy you, curse at you, try to control you, these are the people who know you the best and who love you.

When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and they're not going to be, at the end, they're not going to be close.

It's great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won't; it's up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.

I've always been way closer to my mom. I'm close to my dad, but they're totally different kinds of relationships.

I always felt like there wasn't a blueprint for father-daughter relationships - for them or for us. Because what are they supposed to do with us, treat us like boys, or small women, or what? Father-daughter relationships are so unique from family to family, and I'd love to watch it explored more onstage.

Our family is very tight. Just like any family, we have our ups and downs, but the love is always going to be there. I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can.

I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years.

You've got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.

I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years. We have become more close. I think having kids makes you want to keep the gang together.

Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women, but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.

It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.

When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.

I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.

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.

That case with my two sisters? That was a disaster. It was. They're really fine people. When my family and my two sisters' families - their children - grew up and so on, it just wasn't the same. But we took care of them very nicely.

Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.

Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is.

I've always had a great relationship with my mother, and with both of my parents. We can sit down and talk about things, and even if we do argue, we can get over it and get past it.

I think the reason my relationship works so well with my dad is that we can separate our tennis lives from our personal lives.

I have loved being a step-mum to Brian's children. We have a great relationship, and it's lovely to spend time with the grandchildren.

I'm not saying that every night of the week, my husband, ex-husband, our children and I all sit around together like one big happy family. But we do see each other frequently, and everyone loves each other, and we are all friends.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.