Lena Dunham Quotes

We all work hard to understand the dynamic relationship we have with a parent.

I'm way more influenced by my children than I was by my parents.

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

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

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.

I wouldn't say I'm a mummy's girl, but I have grown to have a tremendous appreciation of her as a woman. I was very much a daddy's girl.

When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

Nobody is going to be more disinterested in your work than your own kid.

I'm coming to that realization that I'm going to be seen as a mom to someone, and it makes you think about your own parents. You know, who were they?

It gets to you as a father when your kids don't react to you in the way you imagine.

My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.

As anyone who is a father or mother out there can tell you, it's pretty amazing.

Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

I was an only child. I hung out with my parents.

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

I've always wanted to be sure my parents approve of what I do. Even with my tattoos, my mom went with me.