Ani DiFranco Quotes

My parents split up when I was young, and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.

My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.

I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom.

I always speak so highly of my mom because she's my partner in crime, and none of this would be possible without her love and support. Always have to make time for Mom.

If I would make a song dedicated to any woman, it would have to be my mom because, you know, she's been there since I came out of her. She would have to be the one... my mom or my daughter.

No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.

I don't have a regular happy family like most people. My parents are separated; my dad married someone else and so did my mom. All my siblings are from my parents' other marriages. So yes, it is complicated, and I don't like talking about it or explaining this to everybody. But all this doesn't stop us from being close to each other.

My mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around.

Womenfolk raised me, and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home.

My family background has always been very supportive. They're going to be there for me no matter what.

A lot of people think I grew up with just my brother and me, but mom was there even when she wasn't. We had a good household.

I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.

My mom and dad got divorced, so it was one of those things where Sundays I'd go to Dad's apartment, and this was, say, 1970-whatever, and it had a pool table on the top floor in a very traditional kind of divorced-dad apartment building.

Actually, my parents were separated by the time I was about 2 years old.

I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.

I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.

I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race.

I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.

My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn't really aware that he was a writer; I didn't start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special; he's still one of my favorite writers.

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.

I can distinctly remember being the only boy in my class whose parents had separated.

Growing up, I did not have many friends with parents who were together.

My mum, Kathy, works as a GP and my dad, Mark, was a high school maths teacher. He now manages mum's practice and is also my cricket coach. We are a close-knit family.