Loretta Swit Quotes

Fights with my father were really quite brutal. I would not live his vision. I would not become who he wanted me to be. Everything I did was criticized. I would spend three months drawing something and show him, and he would look up from his paper and just look back down. I got no approval from him for anything I did that was creative.

My family was never happy with me. I could just say that across the board.

I think my mom threatened to put me up for adoption a few times.

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

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.

To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family.

I remember the bad times as a succession of painful emotional snapshots: Me walking into the library at 24 Sussex, seeing my mother in tears, and hearing her talk about leaving while my father stood facing her, stern and ashen.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now. He was very strict.

I can barely recall a single holiday when my father didn't make a scene or create some kind of chaos. We were always walking on eggshells.

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

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame.

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad.

Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving what you want to achieve, and yet people hold it and hold it and grab it and try to fix it and twist it and turn it.

My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg.

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

I wasn't happy at all as a child. I was very privileged and knew extraordinary people, but I felt very lonely: my mother thought I was extremely difficult and my grandmother was extremely severe.

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

I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.

My relationship with my mom is really bad.

My mother always thought if her mother hadn't left her, she would have been happy. All the problems she had never would have happened.

My mum was quite strict, so I was in a very strict household.