Lisa Graff Quotes

Sometimes it makes me sad that I didn't get to have one family for my entire life.

My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.

My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.

Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went from an urban life to nothing in the countryside - with a new father and new life.

During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.

I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina and didn't play a part in my life. He and my mother divorced when I was only two.

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

I was very young when my parents separated, and later, my mother remarried.

Most of my life I've had long periods of feeling down and lost. That's why every five years or so I've smashed my life to pieces and started again.

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.

My parents had four children quickly, divorced quickly - when I was two - and my mother remarried quickly. We were suddenly in a different environment with a different father.

My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.

I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things being one day here and the next day not; a sense anything could happen. Then, all of a sudden, my mother met my stepfather, and her life became happier, and my life changed, my name changed.

My parents split up when I was 3 years old, and I lived with my mother.

As a kid, I always went to therapists; the first time was when my parents were separated on my sixth birthday, then on and off since then.

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.

My mother and father split up when I was three and my brother was still in the womb.

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

I think - you know, the big trauma in my life, personally, was the fact that at 14, I was taken out of Poland unwittingly because my parents were divorced. Left the country - my mother left for England with her new husband. I wasn't even aware that she'd married him.

Me and my older brother were taken from my mother at the same time so we were pretty tight.

But as a kid you take it very personally when your parents divorce.

I don't want to get too detailed and personal, but my parents got divorced when I was about nine. A lot of that had to do with my dad being on the road and that disconnect.

Nick spent his first years on walks in his stroller and Snugli, playing in Berkeley parks and baby gyms and visiting zoos and aquariums. His mother and I divorced when he was 4. No child benefits from the bitterness and savagery of a divorce like ours.

My parents got divorced when I was really young and I was a very hyperactive kid, so both parents independently would play Enya at the house to calm me down and soothe me as a kid.

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