Lydia Millet Quotes

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.

My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little bit and have a normal relationship with my family.

It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor. I look forward to exploring family entertainment once again and examining the specifics of our day-to-day lives against the backdrop of an extraordinary adventure.

Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents.

My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch.

My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

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

I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relationship with my mother, I understand that deep powerful love, and it's so beautiful. To be a mother to a child is the most brilliant gift; it's gorgeous.

From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.

Childhood is so important. Without a loving one, you're vulnerable throughout your life. We're all the things our parents are - the good and the not so good. Thankfully, I have a wonderful wife who's a brilliant mother.

I've seen my own kids go through their own ups and downs, and as a mother, you want to make it better.

My parents' marriage was already shaky when I came along. They split up when I was five, and I didn't see Dad all that often after that - four or five times a year.

I think divorce is a tragedy, traumatic and horribly painful for everybody. That's why I wrote 'Smart Women.' I want kids to read that and to think what life might be like for their parents. And I want parents to think about what life is like for their kids.

My kids seem to be more mature and older than I am now somehow. They've gotten ahead of me somehow. But they're very patient with me.

I always thought of myself as inadequate. Kids of divorced parents always feel that way - that, on some subconscious level, they're responsible.

I wanted to build a family very strongly because I lost my family when I was 15, 14, and I missed the family unit very much.

I'm completely in love with my children, and I participate in their lives on every level.

The word 'divorce' wasn't foreign to me. As a child of the 1970s, I grew up as part of a generation of kids whose parents got divorced, and it wasn't seen as this terrible thing. Maybe that's why I believed what my father told me and Reina that day: that everything would be okay. But it wasn't.

My family and I have such a different dynamic now. We've talked through a lot of our abuse.

When I was seven my parents divorced. My father went to Dallas. My mom fled to the shelter of my grandparents in a strange central Ohio town of 22,000, Wooster. When it looked like I was growing up to be a wimp I was forced to live with my father, which I did not want to do.

When I was just four-and-a-half, my parents separated and both my parents remarried.

My mum and dad got divorced when I was nine and my brother was seven, and all they strived to do was to make sure we weren't affected.

You know when you have a child and then as you get older, your parents start becoming more like your friends and then telling you things they wouldn't have told you when you were 14 or 15, answering questions about the past or whatever.

My parents were divorced when I was 2, so I don't remember much about them being together.

I want to be present for my kids, and my biological father wasn't present for me.