George T. Conway III Quotes

Everybody has a dysfunctional family.

I can understand a family that's imploding. I have experience of that in my own life.

Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.

We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.

I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.

It's no wonder the narcissistic mother will always have a place in literature: she's a freak of nature.

My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.

Every family is dysfunctional, whether you want to admit it or not.

Everybody has some dysfunction in their families.

For many people, the family is portrayed as the settled place of reasonable safety, but as anyone who has read 'The God of Small Things' would know, for me it was a dangerous place. I felt humiliated in that space. I wanted to get away as soon as I could.

You think we're a family,' Cody said, turning back. 'You think we're some jolly, situation-comedy family when we're in particles, torn apart, torn all over the place, and our mother was a witch.

Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?

My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.

My father told me abuse is generational.

I don't know that anyone comes from a truly functional family.

Every family is dysfunctional.

You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian.

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

I'm working on my relationship with my mother and father, but my upbringing has been very destructive.

I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

Any son of a dictator, I'm sure, has major issues with their relationship with their father.

I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.

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

If my mama and daddy would've stayed together, one of them would've been dead, and the other would have been locked up for it.