Roz Chast Quotes

I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mother's condition.

I had what you could call a chaotic childhood. My parents divorced when I was 2; I went back and forth between my mom's and dad's houses for years. But, you know, my parents tried to do the right thing. As crazy as everything was, and as much fighting and everything, there was always a feeling of support from them.

Because my dad died when I was young, and I have a severely disabled sister, I couldn't really push the envelope at home.

My whole life has been nothing but trying to find a way to take care of my mom and take care of my family as quickly as possible.

Everybody has fights with their sister.

I remember going to friends' houses and being fascinated when they got into fights with their siblings.

May and I are sisters. We'll always fight, but we'll always make up as well. That's what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other's frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we've had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time.

When I see siblings in some families not get along, I just struggle with that. My wife says I need to be more real about it, but I just can't believe it when it happens.

I think that the idea of wanting to fight for your kids, but also knowing that your wife is probably better at it, is something that rings very true for me.

I can take stress on myself but I don't like it when stress comes to my husband or children.

Brothers argue in the heat of the moment, and then they make up.

My kids are four years apart. They're constantly fighting, hitting each other, grabbing the toy away from the other.

Family is family, but sometimes they do hurt you. They don't mean to, but they can, and sometimes you have to fend for yourself.

I always struggle with explaining my relationship with my sister Kim. I am not sure why I am not always able to be myself when I am around her.

I need to take care of my mom and making sure she's financially OK. She's done so much for me, it's the least thing I can do.

My mother didn't know what to do with me.

I love my family. We have a very rich, complicated relationship.

I made my older sister cry playing Monopoly once.

All I care about are my children and that they are brought up properly and that they don't try to play their dad and mom against each other because they know we don't get along.

We have to take care of each other's children.

No matter how far they rise, women never stop being the caregiver. At the end of the day, women bear the emotional responsibility for their families.

Cooper and Peyton really competed a lot, they fought a lot. But Eli was so much younger. He's the little brother.

Every day, I get into fights with my brother, who is the most annoying person on the planet.

The issue you have with two competitive guys being brought up the same way is that you don't have one person who goes out of his way to make a relationship.

I got people to take care of: my mom, my dad, my grandma, my aunties.