Greg Wise Quotes

Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you.

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

There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.

Growing up, I did not have many friends with parents who were together.

I came from a broken family.

I very much wanted the perfect nuclear family, and I came from the perfect nuclear family, but like so many people, that isn't the way things have worked out.

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

My family's messed up, for real.

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.

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.

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

Every family is dysfunctional.

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.

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

When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.

No family is sane, is it?

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

I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.

I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my father was with us, and my mother lived in Jersey.

I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.

Everybody's family has problems.

I don't think there is such a definition of a perfect family, but I do think that our marriages are in crisis. Our families are in crisis. And I think the African-American family is at one of the worst stages it's been at in a very long time in this country. Fatherlessness is rampant.

My father was absolutely no good.

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