Gloria Estefan Quotes

That's something that I struggled with - talking to my mother about some of the problems that I had.

It's great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won't; it's up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.

One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.

I just wish I could understand my father.

That case with my two sisters? That was a disaster. It was. They're really fine people. When my family and my two sisters' families - their children - grew up and so on, it just wasn't the same. But we took care of them very nicely.

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.

When people say, 'Well, I don't talk to my family because they're all conservatives,' or 'I don't talk to my family because they're racist,' I'm, like, 'No, no, no; that's exactly who you need to be talking to.'

My background's Arab and I'm quite fiery, stubborn and used to shouting and expressing myself quite loudly, and Inez and I have our little fall-outs as mum and daughters do.

I only get angry at my brothers and at my father.

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

I don't mind if the couple next to me is tense or the kids are whiny. I'd even be happy to hear an honest argument, evidence of thinking. I'd like to know these teeth-perfect families don't just buy each other stuff but just occasionally can talk to one another.

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.

The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

My relationship with my mother is not cute.

I wouldn't say my mother was my best friend, because that sounds odd, but we have a really tight bond and she is my friend on Facebook. Although she only goes on it to check up on me and sometimes we argue about it.

My own parents were touchy-feely.

It is hard to tell your mother to change her life.

I don't believe in pretending to be someone else. I'm what I actually am in real life. For instance, like any normal girl, I fight with my mother. I mean, it is just fine. In fact, I fight daily with my mother.

Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love them. And when you're young, you can't get on your Big Wheel and go down to the Best Western. You've got to live there and you've got to figure it out.

I have to be in a relationship where I can say what I feel even if it's wrong - so we can work through it.

My dad's not a big talker.

We're a very close family and we're a very real family, and I think every real family has real problems.

It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.

I have a very open line of communication with both my children.