Monica Crowley Quotes

People feel very ashamed to admit that they have in-law problems. They think it's something petty. But it's not petty at all. It hits deep emotions.

Any person who says their family is perfectly functional is lying.

If you're lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you're someone who's got a family that's all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that's a very sad place to be.

Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child.

I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine.

A lot of my YA novels are about family problems.

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

I don't believe in happy families.

The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for good drama.

Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.

Everybody has some dysfunction in their families.

I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.

Everybody has a dysfunctional family.

When I was a little girl, my family was extremely close, loving and really happy, and then overnight, things just became a nightmare, and instead of them becoming a nightmare and getting better, they became a nightmare and just kept getting worse.

My family - my mother and father had gone through such a hard time that by the time I graduated from sixth grade, they were separated.

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

All of the drama with my family and me and my mom and the separation between us and all that crazy stuff - I actually wrote about that. I have a song called 'Dear Mom,' and it's about the trials and tribulations with my mom, so I wrote about that and just everything that I've been through.

My family would try and trick us and I would come to a party and she would be there. When I tell you the 'Love & Hip Hop' scene is nothing compared to what was happening with me and mom... throwing things at each other, the cursing, the words.

Most families are dysfunctional.

My family's messed up, for real.

My dad was a womaniser, a gambler. He was violent. They thought if they left Scotland, they would leave the problems behind.

Who hasn't had an argument with their mother-in-law?

I grew up in a little bit of a broken home.

We had all these smiley family pictures all over the walls of my house, but I always found those pictures to be odd because we weren't smiling all the time. I don't want to paint the picture of a total dysfunctional house, but there were a lot of arguments in that house. A lot of pain.

All of Bengal knows about my differences with my father. He's based in Mumbai. I never visit him. He never visits me. We are not enemies. But neither are we friends.