Alexander Pope Quotes

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

A betrayal in a family is much more devastating than a betrayal among friends, or even lovers.

I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.

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

While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.

My parents felt judged by me.

The Trees was four complete nuts. We didn't have a damn thing in common except insanity. So we fought a lot. And we had two brothers - who fought like brothers.

I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV.

Families are the deepest, most screwed up relationships that we have.

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

When I was young, I told my sister that she had chunky thighs. She slapped me and I cried. She feels bad about it to this day, but I feel worse.

I love books about dysfunctional families.

Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt for that. One flaw: sometimes, early on, she would tell me things designed to make me think less of my mother, and I would wave her away, saying, 'Jane, this just backfires and makes me think less of you.'

The real demon in my life is my father.

My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.

No matter our background, we all have crazy families.

The history of fiction is about family - an inexhaustible subject for literature. We are creatures driven by emotions that are on high display in intimate relations - inside the family.

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.

I don't believe in happy families.

Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving what you want to achieve, and yet people hold it and hold it and grab it and try to fix it and twist it and turn it.