Leila Slimani Quotes

It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you're lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

I feel very, very lucky to have come from the family I did. We have our dysfunctions and our problems, just like any family. But my parents are extremely loving people.

I am a hopeless mamma's boy.

I'm like a mama's boy and stuff.

The family is the corner-stone of society

Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.

Strong families are vital to strong societies.

In my household growing up in Fayetteville, N.C., music was the great communicator between my parents and me.

When my son, Jack, was four, I had to make a trip to Los Angeles. I asked him if he was going to miss me. 'Not so much,' Jack told me. 'You're not going to miss me?' I said. Jack shook his head, and he said, 'Love means you can never be apart.

I loved being my father's audience and watching him in front of the mirror as he talked to himself made up like a clown.

I never wanted my kids to feel about me the way I felt about him.

My contact with my dad's side of my family got less after we stopped living together, but they were in my life.

'Cake' is a simple, almost traditional and relatable story, that highlights family values and intimate relationship dynamics within a family.

I spent a lot of my school vacations in Devlali because my grandparents lived in the cantonment there.

I love 'Threepenny Opera'; I was exposed to it as a little kid because my parents, my mom and my dad, had bonded, when they were dating, over 'Threepenny Opera' and introduced it to me, a child, who could barely understand it. But I immediately gravitated even from that early age.

Family relationships are just so fascinating - how they shape you as a person, how you can wound each other, how you're imprinted in a way by your family and the conditions under which you grow up.

I lived a block and a half away from four cousins, and I had three siblings. The Jaeger home was a big, messy, happy family.

I have tried to bring the family together. My father should have done it, and to some extent, I have succeeded.

Family gatherings were very important to me growing up.

I have loved being a step-mum to Brian's children. We have a great relationship, and it's lovely to spend time with the grandchildren.

I grew up watching 'Gilmore Girls' with my older cousins!

I was a mama's boy.

When a child is small, it is his mother who is mainly responsible for the way he is brought up. So it was with me. I belonged in those days to my mother rather than my father.

As far as children out there that hate their moms and dads, just get over it, because you get one dad and one mom. You know, suck it up. Learn something.