Phyllis Diller Quotes

I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.

I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were.

I don't have the best family life. I'm not going to have a sob story and be like, my parents abandoned me, because they didn't. But they also are not that present. When I'm alone, I'm alone. I don't have anybody to call, and so I have to create meaning from myself.

My father walked out on us when I was three months old, and my mum, well, she wasn't the driven sort.

Cyborg was the first superhero that I've ever seen whose parent was around but just was not there for him emotionally, mentally. I related to that in a big way because, growing up, it was my mother and grandmother that raised me and my brother and sisters. I'm the second youngest of five; my father was never in the picture.

There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.

I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children

Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby.

Once upon a time, if you wanted to talk about the notion of child abandonment, of a mother not being a good mother, that's built into the mother who sends the babes into the woods, and they use the bits of bread or stones to come home again.

My childhood was bittersweet in many ways. We moved around a lot. By the time I was 10, I had travelled thousands of miles, often on my own. My parents were like my friends, so it felt like I didn't really have parents at all. But in a crazy way that was very liberating. It forced me to be independent, maybe a leader, and certainly a survivor.

If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me.

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.

Now when I was a teenager, I was angsty as any teenager was, but after 17 years of having a mother who was in and out of my life like a yo-yo and a father who was faceless, I was angry.

My mother was 13 when I was born. My childhood was pretty frantic, to say the least. My mother left when I was about 5, and Daddy started me singing in clubs. Then I started singing on the radio in Oklahoma City when I was 7.

When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here's the most important person in my life, and I never met him.

My mom, you know, took off when I was about 6. What ended up happening is I ended up being with my grandparents.

There was a lot of brokenness in my family. Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

My father, my Mormon father, took off when I was a young man and, or actually very young, I was like six years old, so a young boy.

I was a latchkey kid from the time I was 7 years old.

My dad left home when I was super young, so it was my mum bringing me and my brother up.

I never helped my kids. I was working too hard. My kids had to be responsible for themselves.

My father, he left the family when I was 13, so mum looked after us.

I was in diapers when my parents left me with the babysitter to participate in an armored car robbery. They never came home.

My dad was an only child. His father raised him all but alone after his mother abandoned the two of them. He was only three years old.

At five years old, I became the man of the house. When he left, my dad let me know that. It put a certain drive in me that I can't explain.